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Headword: *penteta/lantos di/kh diage/graptai
Adler number: pi,978
Translated headword: a five-talent lawsuit has been cancelled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The epsilon is preserved unchanged[1] in Attic writers.
Greek Original:
*penteta/lantos di/kh diage/graptai: to\ e a)/trepton threi=tai para\ toi=s *)attikoi=s.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 774, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1); the allusion is to a suit in which the defendant, if convicted, would be liable for such a (huge) sum.
[1] i.e. pente rather than penta-. The reading e is Porson's emendation; all the manuscripts have pe/nte.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 May 2004@07:39:44.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 26 May 2004@01:58:32.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 26 May 2004@04:02:24.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 4 March 2010@09:57:05.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 20 March 2010@00:35:28.
David Whitehead on 4 September 2011@09:20:16.
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