Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator), 1

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[1] Who were the dusty-feet and the directors in Epidaurus?

There were one hundred and eighty men who directed the State. From these they used to elect councillors whom they called directors. But the majority of the populace spent their life in the coun try. They were called dusty-feet¹ since, as one may conjecture, they were recognized by their dust-covered feet whenever they carne down to the city.

Quaestiones Graecae. Plutarch. Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1936.

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Current edition Perseus

The Greek Questions (English) (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).)

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Αἴτια Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 1 focus

291d τίνες οἱ ἐν Ἐπιδαύρῳ κονίποδες καὶ 291e ἄρτυνοι;

οἱ μὲν τὸ πολίτευμα ἔχοντες¹ ὁγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἄνδρες ἦσαν ἐκ δὲ τούτων ᾑροῦντο βουλευτάς, οὓς ἀρτύνους ἐκάλουν. τοῦ δὲ δήμου τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν ἀγρῷ διέτριβεν· ἐκαλοῦντο δὲ κονίποδες, ὡς συμβαλεῖν ἔστιν ἀπὸ τῶν ποδῶν γνωριζόμενοι κεκονιμένων, ὁπότε κατέλθοιεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

Κεφαλαίων καταγραφή Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 1 focus

[1] 20 τινες οἱ ἐν Ἐπιδαύρῳ κονίποδες καὶ ἄρτυνοι; 291d 291e οἱ μὲν τὸ πολίτευμα ¹ ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἄνδρες ἦσαν· ἐκ δὲ τούτων ᾑροῦντο βουλευτάς, οὓς ἀρτύνους ἐκάλουν. τοῦ δὲ δήμου τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν 5 ἀγρῷ διέτριβεν· ἐκαλοῦντο δὲ κονίποδες, ὡς συμβαλεῖν ἔστιν ἀπὸ τῶν ποδῶν γνωριζόμενοι κεκονιμένων, ὁπότε κατέλθοιεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

Translations (1)

Greek Questions Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. II. Goodwin, William W., editor; Chauncy, Isaac translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 1 focus

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Question 1.

Who are they at Epidaurus called Κονίποδες and Ἄρτυνοι?

Solution.

The managers of the affairs of the commonwealth were one hundred and eighty men; out of these they elected senators, which they called ἄρτυνοι. The most part of the common people were conversant in husbandry; these they called κονίποδες, because (as may be supposed) they were known by their dirty feet when they came into the city.

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The Greek Questions

1. This was the serf-class liberated by the tyrants: cf. Cambridge Ancient History, vol. iii. p. 554.

Plutarch Quaestiones Graecae 1

Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator)

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