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Headword: Καδίσκος
Adler number: kappa,14
Translated headword: voting-urn
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A particular vessel, into which the jurors used to cast their votes, bore this name. Phrynichus in Muses [writes]: "look, take the voting-pebble; here is your urn, this one to acquit, that one to convict".[1]
Greek Original:
Καδίσκος: ἀγγεῖόν τι, εἰς ὃ ἐψηφοφόρουν οἱ δικασταί, οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο. Φρύνιχος Μούσαις: ἰδού, δέχου τὴν ψῆφον: ὁ καδίσκος δέ σοι, ὁ μὲν ἀπολύων οὗτος, ὁ δ' ἀπολλὺς ὁδί.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., glossing Isaeus 11.21 & 23.
[1] Phrynichus fr. 32 Kock (33 K-A).
Keywords: comedy; definition; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 November 2000@09:56:56.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Cosmetics, added keyword, set status) on 29 November 2000@23:53:58.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 17 September 2002@08:41:03.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 11 July 2011@03:42:58.
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