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Notes on Some Attic Decrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Extract

Mr. D. M. Lewis has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of this decree relating to the Praxiergidai and their ancestral ritual, but his restoration of the last line (l. 25) is far from satisfactory. In his version the last two lines are given as follows:

In stating that the restorations are ‘virtually compulsory’ he has failed to realise that [με]δίμνον is not the only possible explanation for the six letters that survive, and he does not discuss the unlikely construction with a genitive plural following ἀμφιεννύ[ναι].

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1955

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References

1 Cf. also the marble weight from the Agora, inscribed ΔΙΜΝΟYΝ Hesperia III (1934), 53, no. 40.

2 Op. cit. 218.

3 In line 6 his restoration [εὺνομὶας Χ]ὴμε῀ς is preferable to my first suggestion [σωφροσὺνης ] ὴμε῀ς

4 It is surely safe to assume that these monuments, on which Herodotus enlarges (II 106), would be known by repute in Athens.