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Headword:
*pla/stigc
Adler number: pi,1695
Translated headword: scale, disk, horse-collar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the counterpoise of a balance.[1]
And the part fitted on the balance, on which the beams are placed.[2]
"Along with the supervisors of the scales he restored the money to the Persians."[3]
Greek Original:*pla/stigc: tou= zugou= to\ a)nti/rropon. kai\ to\ kathrthme/non tou= zugou= me/ros, w(=| e)penti/qentai ta\ zuga/. a(/ma toi=s tw=n plasti/ggwn e)pista/tais a)pokate/sthse toi=s *pe/rsais ta\ xrh/mata.
Notes:
For another application of this word, see
pi 1696.
[1] Same or similar gloss in other lexica; references at
Photius pi916 Theodoridis.
[2] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1378 (where the dual of the headword occurs).
[3]
Menander Protector 6.1. Blockley (76-77, fr. 11 FHG), overlapping with the quotation at
alpha 3339. Upon concluding negotiations in 561, Roman envoy Peter (Petros, Petrus; cf.
pi 1406 and
pi 1408) settled accounts with the Persians. See further excerpts from this fragment at
alpha 2811,
epsilon 491,
epsilon 2331,
theta 162,
kappa 480,
mu 637,
mu 721,
xi 124, and
pi 147.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; geography; historiography; history; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 September 2012@23:08:59.
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