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Laispodias Andronymios*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

R. Develin
R. Develin*
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
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Laispodias was general in 414/3 and was evidently from a prominent family. Indeed the latter fact is stressed by the first citation in his entry in PA (no. 8963), from Theognostos' Kanones as in J. A. Cramer, Anecdota graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecarum Oxoniensium II (Oxford 1835), 9.22 f.: Λαιποδίας (sic) Ἀνδρωνύμιος ἑνὸς τῶν Ἀθήνῃσιν ἐπιφανῶν. Kirchner was evidently, and reasonably, puzzled by Ἀνδρωνύμιος. The only other Laispodias in PA is no. 8962, who appears on a dedication, IG i2 616. A. E. Raubitschek included this as no. 87 in Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis (Cambridge, Mass. 1949); he restored Laispodias in the genitive as a patronymic and properly supposed that the two men of the name were of the same family. As for the addition ἀνδρονύμιος (sic—with omikron) he asks us to compare ΣAr. Wasps 1239 and the lexicon in order that we should believe that it ‘means only that Laispodias was a proper name’. Indeed, in LSJ we find two references under ἀνδρωνύμιον as a noun meaning ‘proper name’, namely Theognostos and the scholiast.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 106 , November 1986 , pp. 184
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1986

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References

1 Bechtel, F., Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit (Halle 1917), 350 Google Scholar f. has only names ending in -ωνυμος.

2 Thomsen, R.. The origin of ostracism. A synthesis (Copenhagen 1972), 76 Google Scholar n. 120; ML p. 46.

3 On one of them see Masson, O., ‘Pape-Benseleriana VII. Le nom Charis, feminin et masculin’, ZPE xxxvii (1980), 109–113 Google Scholar.

4 Cf. Davies, J. K.. Wealth and the power of wealth in Classical Athens (New York 1981), 160 Google Scholar.

5 The other general from the tribe, indeed from the same deme, would be Konon, but the data on his command do not guarantee him a generalship in this year or at all in the context of Thuc. vii 31.4 f. This will be discussed under the appropriate year in my collection of Athenian officials, 684 to 322 BC, which has been aided by the Australian Research Grants Scheme.