For staters see also kappa 2627, sigma 1008.
[1] This opening set of definitions is taken over from the Synagoge (sigma194 Cunningham) and Photius' Lexicon (sigma499 Theodoridis); cf. Hesychius sigma1609 for tetragrammon, which LSJ Suppl. equate with tetragrammiaion. [Theodoridis on Photius obelizes it, championing instead the emendation by Boeckh and Schleusner to tetradrachmon, but no change is needed: DW.] As to the second term, the Suda mss evidently transmit it with a rough beathing, hexagion, a word used in a fragment of Oribasius to mean a weight of one-and-a-half drachmas; but as exagion it means testing or assaying. 'It is now standard practice among numismatists to call what appears to be the principal regular issue of a Greek mint a stater, if they are not perfectly sure of its denomination' (John Melville-Jones, A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins (London 1986) 217).
[2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 816 (here abridged: see web address 1 below for the text), and scholion. See also alpha 4036.
[3] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 412-13 (web address 2 below). See also tau 406.
[4] This superfluous addendum is lacking, Adler reports, in ms V.