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Headword:
*pina/kia
Adler number: pi,1610
Translated headword: plates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those employed instead of lots by those being allotted. These seem to be bronze, as
Demosthenes indicates in the [speech]
On the Name.[1] In the
Philippics, when the orator says "a tiny, tiny little plate, Athenians"[2], he is perhaps speaking of a little plate on which the charges against those being impeached are recorded.
*pina/kia: ta\ kaqie/mena a)nti\ klh/rwn u(po\ tw=n klhrono/mwn. e)/oike de\ tau=ta ei)=nai xalka=, w(s u(poshmai/nei *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ tou= o)no/matos. e)n de\ toi=s *filippikoi=s, o(/tan le/gh| o( r(h/twr, mikro\n, w)= *)aqhnai=oi, mikro\n pina/kion: tuxo\n pina/kion le/gei, ei)s o(\ e)ggra/fetai ta\ e)gklh/mata kata\ tw=n ei)saggellome/nwn.
Notes:
Reference:
J.H. Kroll, Athenian Bronze Allotment Plates (Cambridge Mass. 1972)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; law; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 December 2000@05:46:57.
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