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Headword:
*strathgoi/
Adler number: sigma,1174
Translated headword: generals
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The generals elected each year [sc. in classical
Athens] were ten.
Demosthenes in
Philippics [sc. mentions them].[1]
"They used to have a general distinguished by his fearlessness and boldness in the face of dangers, but in other respects obscure and risen from humble beginnings and an object of suspicion in the eyes of the most reputable and an object of envy owing to his enjoying a good reputation contrary to his merits."[2]
*strathgoi/: oi( kaq' e(/kaston e)niauto\n xeirotonou/menoi strathgoi\ i# h)=san. *dhmosqe/nhs e)n *filippikoi=s. strathgo\n ei)=xon tw=| me\n a)o/knw| te kai\ qrasei= e)s tou\s kindu/nous lampro/n, ta)/lla de\ a)fanh= kai\ e)k tapeinou= hu)chme/non kai\ toi=s dokimwta/tois u(/popton kai\ tw=| par' a)ci/an eu)dokimei=n e)pi/fqonon.
Notes:
The first part of this entry is abridged from Harpokration s.v.; besides
Demosthenes (below) it cites
Hyperides fr. 64 Jensen and the Aristotelian
Athenaion Politeia.
[1]
Demosthenes 4.26.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Its odd, argumentative character may or may not reflect comment on one general in particular.
Debra Hamel, Athenian Generals: military authority in the classical period (Leiden 1998)
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 12 August 1999@19:55:13.
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