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Headword:
*)ostrakismo/s
Adler number: omicron,716
Translated headword: ostracism
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those most hostile to the people [sc. in classical
Athens] used to be ostracized and [thus?] convicted; for the name of the man about to be exiled was written on pieces of pot [
ostraka].
*)ostrakismo/s: oi( kakonou/statoi tw=| dh/mw| e)cwstraki/zonto kai\ katedika/zonto: o)stra/kois ga\r e)gra/feto to\ o)/noma tou= feucome/nou.
Note:
Beyond explaining the etymology of the word, a feeble entry (from
Photius,
Lexicon omicron572 Theodoridis, itself taken over from
Hesychius omicron1461). See rather
omicron 717, which, inter alia, makes a proper distinction between ostracism and exile. See also
epsilon 1810,
epsilon 1811.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 July 2001@03:14:49.
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