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Headword:
*kuamotrw/c
Adler number: kappa,2578
Translated headword: bean-chewer, bean-muncher
Vetting Status: high
Translation: []Meaning] a juror, sustained by beans; for before the discovery of pebbles[1] they used to use beans in the votes for officials and in the assemblies.[2] So it was as if those casting votes were taking money and raising their hands [to vote] for those who gave more. And elsewhere: "no Attic bean-chewer is judging these men."[3]
Greek Original:*kuamotrw/c: o( dikasth/s, trefo/menos u(po\ kua/mwn: pro\ ga\r th=s eu(re/sews tw=n yh/fwn kua/mois e)xrw=nto e)n tai=s xeirotoni/ais tw=n a)rxo/ntwn kai\ e)n tai=s e)kklhsi/ais. w(s ou)=n tw=n yhfizo/ntwn a)rgu/rion lambano/ntwn kai\ xeirotonou/ntwn tou\s dido/ntas ple/on. kai\ au)=qis: krinei= de\ tou/tous ou) kuamotrw\c *)attiko/s.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 41 (web address 1), where the headword occurs (in reference to Demos, the personified Athenian People); cf. already
kappa 2577.
[1] That is, before it occurred to anyone to use pebbles for this purpose. But see next note.
[2] Unlikely: see
delta 837,
phi 756.
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Paulus Silentiarius (a Christian poet of the C6 CE),
Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae, line 125.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; chronology; comedy; definition; food; history; law; poetry; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 November 2001@04:54:59.
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