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Headword:
*pentw/bolon
h(lia/sasqai
Adler number: pi,985
Translated headword: to be a five-obol heliast
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] having defeated the Peloponnesians, to be a juror [sc. with jurisdiction] as far as Arcadia, drawing a five-obol fee, not a three-obol one.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] pempw/bolon, [sc. used] likewise.[2]
Greek Original:*pentw/bolon h(lia/sasqai: nikh/santa tou\s *peloponnhsi/ous dika/sai me/xris *)arkadi/as, lamba/nonta misqo\n pentw/bolon, a)ll' ou) triw/bolon. kai\ *pempw/bolon o(moi/ws.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 798, where the headword phrase occurs, of Demos ("to be a five-obol heliast in Arcadia"): web address 1.
[2] Not quite. This word (involving a different sense of 'obol') means a five-pronged fork; cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 3.460, where it occurs: web address 2.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 May 2004@08:03:47.
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