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Headword:
Ὀβολοστατεῖ
Adler number: omicron,9
Translated headword: weighs obols
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [he/she/it] lends money.[1]
Lysias [writes]: "not even if one were to calculate much less interest than these obol-weighing men exact from others".[2] Obol-weighers is what they used to call money-lenders, as
Hyperides and comedy [make clear].[3]
Ὀβολοστατεῖ: ἀντὶ τοῦ δανείζει. Λυσίας: οὐδ' ἂν οἱ πολλοὶ ἐλάττονα τόκον λογίσαιτό τις, ἢ ὅσον οὗτοι ὀβολοστατοῦντες τοὺς ἄλλους πράττονται. ἔλεγον δὲ ὀβολοστάτας τοὺς δανειστάς, ὡς Ὑπερίδης καὶ ἡ κωμῳδία.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
[1] Third person singular, present, of
ὀβολοστατέω ; extracted, according to Harpok., from
Lysias fr. 201 Sauppe (now 253 Carey OCT).
[2]
Lysias fr. 156 Sauppe (now 209 Carey OCT), reading
εἰ πολὺ ἐλάττονα (as in Harpok.) rather than the
οἱ πολλοὶ ἐλάττονα transmitted here.
[3]
Hyperides fr. 181 Jensen. ("Obol-weigher" appears as
omicron 10, with an unrelated gloss.)
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2000@03:05:38.
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