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Headword:
Μορῶν
Adler number: mu,1259
Translated headword: mora
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in [the] Philippics [sc. uses the word].[1] Certain Laconian formations are called thus. And
Aristotle says that there are six named moirai[sic] and all Lakedaimonians are divided between the moirai.[2] And
Xenophon says, in the
Constitution of the Lakedaimonians: "each of the citizen morai has one polemarch, four lochagoi, five pentekostyes, and sixteen enomotarchs".[3]
Greek Original:Μορῶν: Δημοσθένης ἐν Φιλιππικοῖς. συντάγματά τινα Λακωνικὰ οὕτω καλεῖται. φησὶ δὲ Ἀριστοτέλης, ὥς εἰσι μοῖραι ἓξ ὠνομασμέναι, καὶ διῄρηνται εἰς τὰς μοίρας Λακεδαιμόνιοι πάντες. Ξενοφῶν δέ φησιν ἐν τῇ Λακώνων πολιτείᾳ: ἑκάστη δὲ τῶν πολιτικῶν μορῶν ἔχει πολέμαρχον ἕνα, λοχαγοὺς δ#, πεντηκοστύας η#, ἐννομοτάρχας ἑκκαίδεκα.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v.
μόραν (sic: accusative singular, as in the primary source; in the Suda it has become genitive plural).
[1]
Demosthenes 13.22. (As regularly in the Suda and other lexica, this is "Philippics" in the broad ancient sense.) See also 23.198.
[2]
Aristotle fr. 540 Rose.
[3]
Xenophon,
Lak.Pol. 11.4.
P.A. Cartledge, Agesilaos (London 1987) appendix 2
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 16 October 2000@13:22:59.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes, bibliography, keyword; cosmetics) on 17 October 2000@03:42:53.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 July 2011@07:53:53.
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