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Headword:
*pwlw=si
Adler number: pi,2174
Translated headword: they sell
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Didymus says [sc. that this verb is used] to mean they operate as prostitutes [
porneu/ousi] openly; for to offer oneself[1] to those who want is to sell [
pwlei=n], for which reason it is also to operate as a prostitute, that is to sell [
perna=n]. But I say that the rhetor has here used "to sell" precisely: for he says that the law does not allow one to seize as a
moichos [a man who is] with this woman,[2] "as many as sit in a brothel or sell something openly in the
agora."
Demosthenes in
Against Neaira.[3] Or "in the
agora".[4]
Greek Original:*pwlw=si: *di/dumos fhsi\n a)nti\ tou= porneu/ousi fanerw=s: pwlei=n ga\r to\ pare/xein e(auto\n toi=s boulome/nois, o(/qen kai\ to\ porneu/ein, o(/per e)sti\ perna=n. e)gw\ de/ fhmi, o(/ti kuri/ws e)/tace nu=n o( r(h/twr to\ pwlei=n: fhsi\ ga\r to\n no/mon ou)k e)a=n e)pi\ tau/ths moixo\n labei=n, o(po/sai a)\n e)p' e)rgasthri/ou ka/qwntai h)\ e)n th=| a)gora=| pwlw=si/ ti a)popefasme/nws. *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *neai/ras. h)\ e)n th=| a)gora=|.
Notes:
From Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v., commenting on [
Demosthenes] 59.67; see further in the notes below.
[1] In Harpok., though not here, this pronoun is feminine.
[2]
tau/ths, but in [
Demosthenes] the pronoun is a dative plural,
tau/th|si.
[3] On this passage see Konstantinos Kapparis,
Apollodoros 'Against Neaira' [D. 59] (Berlin & New York 1999) 126-127 (where in fact he prints not
pwlw=si but middle-voice
pwlw=ntai; cf. next note, and bibliography below) with commentary at 311-313. On the law in question see also
Lysias 10.19.
[4] This phrase has already occurred in the quotation of the law (though Kapparis follows Francke in deleting it), so why it reappears here is unclear.
Steven Johnstone, American Journal of Philology 123 (2002) 229-256 (a lengthy defence of the transmitted text)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; rhetoric; women
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 6 October 2000@11:50:24.
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