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Headword: *plhrwth/s
Adler number: pi,1762
Translated headword: filler
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the word].[1] Fillers are what they used to call those making an eranos[2] to people who had either been allotted it or had bought [sc. the right to] it. These might be what we [now] call eranarchs.
Greek Original:
*plhrwth/s: *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *)aristogei/tonos. plhrwta\s e)ka/loun tou\s a)podido/ntas to\n e)/ranon toi=s h)/toi laxou=sin h)\ e)wnhme/nois. ei)=en d' a)\n ou(=toi oi( par' h(mi=n kalou/menoi e)rana/rxai.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v. (who went on to cite other passages from Attic oratory).
[1] Demosthenes 25.21 (web address 1).
[2] A communal loan: see epsilon 2893 (also epsilon 2891, epsilon 2892). For eranarchs see e.g. Diogenes Laertius 6.63.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 December 2000@06:20:49.
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