[Meaning] an heiress, who does not have a dowry because her father left her in poverty, but is being dowered by her relatives in accordance with the law [to the extent of] 500 drachmas.
*qh=tta: e)pi/klhros, ou)k e)/xousa fernh/n, penixra\ kataleifqei=sa u(po\ tou= patro/s, u(po\ de\ tw=n a)gxiste/wn proikizome/nh kata\ no/mon pentakosi/wn draxmw=n.
The headword (a single word in the Greek), here nominative singular, is in Attic dialect (with tt). For its counterpart
qh=ssa see already
theta 365, and generally LSJ under
qh/s. The entry itself has rememblances to ones in other lexica, e.g.
Photius theta172 Theodoridis., but this is more specific.
we
"The daughter of a man in the thetic class who survived him and would thus have been an [heiress] if there had been any estate to inherit was known as a
qh=ssa and was the subject of special provisions which are set out in full in
Demosthenes,
Makartatos [Demosth. 43.54]. Her nearest male kinsman was required either to marry her himself or to dower her; the dowry was fixed by the census class to which the man belonged, 500 drachmai if he was a pentakosiomedimnos, 300 if he was a knight, 150 if he was a zeugite" (A.R.W. Harrison,
The Law of Athens, i (Oxford 1969) 135-6).
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