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Headword:
*sitofu/lakes
Adler number: sigma,505
Translated headword: grain-guardians
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A particular official position at
Athens, responsible for seeing that grain was sold at a fair price, and barley-groats and bread too. In number they were fifteen in town and five in
Peiraieus.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the term] grain-guardpost.[2]
*sitofu/lakes: a)rxh/ tis h)=n *)aqh/nhsin, h(/tis e)pemelei=to, o(/pws o( si=tos dikai/ws praqh/setai kai\ ta\ a)/lfita kai\ oi( a)/rtoi. h)=san de\ to\n a)riqmo\n ie# me\n e)n a)/stei, e# de\ e)n *peiraiei=. kai\ *sitofulakei=on.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., glossing
Dinarchus fr. XIX.10 Conomis.
[1] The first of these figures (from ?
Aristotle,
Athenaion Politeia 51.3, via Harpok.) has become corrupted in transmission: read "in number they were ten, five in town and ...". See web address 1.
[2] cf. under
sigma 564,
chi 143.
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Keywords: agriculture; constitution; definition; economics; ethics; food; geography; historiography; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@06:23:39.
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