Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, ed. William W. Goodwin, 8

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Question 8.

Who is called Platychaetas among the Boeotians?

Solution.

They that had many neighboring houses or bordering fields were so called in the Aeolic dialect, as having wide domains.¹ I will add one saying out of the Thesmophylacian law, seeing there are many....

Quaestiones Graecae. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Greek Questions (English) (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.)

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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).) — 8 focus

[8] τίς ὁ παρὰ Βοιωτοῖς πλατιοικέτας¹;

τοὺς οἰκίᾳ γειτνιῶντας ἢ χωρίοις ὁμοροῦντας αἰολίζοντες οὕτω καλοῦσιν ὡς τὸ πλησίον² ἔχοντας. παραθήσομαι δὲ λέξιν μίαν ἐκ τοῦ θεσμοφυλακίου νόμου, πλειόνων οὐσῶν....

Κεφαλαίων καταγραφή Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 8 focus

τίς ὁ παρὰ Βοιωτοῖς πλατυχαίτας;¹ τοὺς οἰκίᾳ γειτνιῶντας ἢ χωρίοις ὁμοροῦντας αἰολίζοντες οὕτω καλοῦσιν ὡς τὸ πλεῖστον ² ἔχοντας. παραθήσομαι δὲ λέξιν μίαν ἐκ τοῦ θεσμοφυλακίου νόμου, πλειόνων οὐσῶν. 15

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The Greek Questions Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 8 focus

[8] Who is the near-dweller ( platioiketas) among the Boeotians?

This is the name they give in the Aeolian dialect to persons who dwell in the next house or occupy adjoining property, signifying that they hold land near at hand. I shall add one phrase from the Edict of the Guardians of the Law, although there are several more...¹

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Greek Questions

1. See the word πλατυχαίτας (probably corrupt) in Liddell and Scott’s Greek Lexicon. (G.)

Plutarch Quaestiones Graecae 8

ed. William W. Goodwin

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