Rhodes and Osborne Oversat1. Law of the phratry (?) of the
Labyadai. Delphi, fifth/fourth century. ID 1.9 A & B. [ ]
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1 [] [][ ]-1Let the oath be: I will serve as officer justly
[] [] [][]-according to the laws of the city
[] []and those of the Labyadai,
[][] []-as regards offerings of sacrificial victims and
5 [][]5cakes. And the money
[] [] []-I will exact and will publish (accounts)
[] []justly for the Labyadai
[][]and I will not steal nor do any harm
[] by any means or device
10[] []-10to the property of the Labyadai.
[] [ ]-I will make the tagoi
h [ ][]for next year swear the oath
. haccording as it is written. Oath:
h []-I promise by Zeus
15 -15Patroios. If I keep my
, [']oath may good things happen to me,
[, ] (?) []-if I break my oath, may evil result from
[]. vacatevil rather than good. vacat.
[] -Resolved by the Labyadai. On the
20 [], []-20tenth of the month Boukatios, in the archonship
, [], []-of Kampos, at the Assembly, by
h []one hundred eighty two
. [] -votes. The tagoi are to receive
no cake offerings on the occasion of marria-
25 ' []-25ges or for children, and no sacrificial
, -victims unless the collectivity of the patria
-from which the person making the offering comes
. []-endorses the offering. If they
, -order anything that brakes the law,
30 [].30let the risk be on those who gave the order.
[] []-Sacrificial victims are to be brought at the Apel-
, [] [][]lai and those who bring them are not to bring
[], -them and the tagoi are not to receive them
[] -on any other day.
35. 35If they do receive them on a other
[] , -day than the Apellai, each
[] -of them is to pay a fine of 10 drach-
-mas. Whoever wishes to accuse
, -those who have received the sacrificial victims
40 h -40should bring his accusation
-under the succeeding tagoi, at the assembly after
[] , ' -Boukatia, if the tagoi
-who received the victim dispute the
. accusation. The sacrificial victims
45 -45are to be brought and the cakes
. h offered in the same year; anyone who does not
-bring the sacrificial victims or offer
, -the cakes is to deposit a
-stater in each case.
50 h -50In the following year
he is to bring the victims and
offer the cakes. If he
, -does not bring, no deposit
, ' -is to be accepted: either he is to bring
55, -the victims or he is to pay
, h-20 drachmas, or he is to be listed
and pay interest. And
h-he is to offer the cakes
, []-in the following year, or else pay a
60[ .15..]fine of
Lacuna
1. -, to be :Pass., to be united under one , to be chief of a
phratria, (Delph., iv B.C.).4. , , sc. , name of a month in various
Dorian states, as Delphi, GDI1721.5. , , a Thessalian kind of
bread,:also fem. pl. , , cakes offered at marriage and registration
ceremonies by a , Michel995A5, al. (Delph., v/iv B.C.).6. ,: join
or help in doing, abs., lend aid, cooperate, intr..6. - fut. -,
Ion. -: point away from other objects at one, and so: point out,
display, make known, whether by deed or word, dedicate,
consecrate.7. 8. = + 11. [], bring on, set on, urge on, ead on an
army against the enemy, quicken the pace, lead on by persuasion,
influence, c. inf., induce one to do, bring in, invite as aiders or
allies, introduce a person before the assembly, 14. , Ion. and Ep.
:take upon oneself, i. e. undertake to do,: more freq.,
promise,
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RO 14. Helisson becomes a kame of Mantinea, early fourth
century.The upper part of a stele found at Mantinea; now in the
museum at Tripolis. Phot. BCH cxi 1987, 168 fig. I. Arcadian, with
as a punctuation mark between paragraphs. G.-J.-M.-J. Te Riele, BCH
cxi 1987, 167-90*; SEG xxxvii 340; IPArk. 9. See also L. Dubois,
REG ci 1988, 395-7 no. 621; Nielsen & Roy (edd.), Defining
Ancient Arkadia.
God. Good fortune.2 Agreement between the Mantineans and the
Heliswasians for all days.Resolved by the Mantineans and the
Heliswasians.[] [].[] [][] [] [][] [] (1) [][]-[] , [][ ]-
5 , [] [] [] , []- [] , [] - . (2) []- . (3) -
10 . (4) [] -[] , , (5) [] -
15, - . (6) - [] ' - . [] -
20 , [] (7) , [] [] [ ] - [] [ .4] [] -
25, [ ], [, , . ] .
The Heliswasians shall be Mantineans, equal and alike, sharing
in all the things in which the Mantineans share too, conveying
their land and their polis to Mantinea tothe laws of the
Mantineans, the polis of the Heliswasians remaining as it is for
all time,the Heliswasians being a kome of the Mantineans.8 There
shall be a religious delegate (thearos) from Helisson as for the
other po leis.9 The sacrifices shall be sacrificed at Helisson and
religious delegations (theariaz) shall bereceived in accordance
with tradition.IO Lawsuits shall be pursued by the Heliswasians and
the Mantineans against oneanother in accordance with the laws of
the Mantineans, from the time when theHeliswasians have become
Mantineans, for the future: earlier matters shall not
bejusticiable.13 Whatever contracts the Heliswasians happen to have
had, themselves with themselves,before they became Mantineans shall
be valid for them in accordance with thelaws which they themselves
had when they were going to Mantinea.16 All the Heliswasians shall
be registered with the epimeletaiby father in accordance withtheir
age, within ten days from when the stele-engravers come. Those who
have beenregistered shall be reported by the epimeletai to
Mantinea, and shall be registered forthe thesmotoaroi during the
demiurgeship ofNices, and the thesmotoaroi shall write themon
whitened boards and publish them to the council-house.21 If anyone
declares that one of those who have been registered is not a
Heliswasian, itshall be permitted to him to make an imphasis to the
thesmotoaroi in the year after thatin which Nices was damiorgos,
and the man who is the subject of the imphasis shall havethe case
tried for him before the Three Hundred in the second (?)/next (?)
month afterthe imphasis is made, and ifhe is victorious he shall be
a Mantinean, but if not he shallowe to the god( dess) -
--Hodkinson, BSAlxxvi 1981, 239-96 at 256-61); it was interested in
neighbouring communitiesin the late fifth century (Thuc. IV. 134,
etc.); it was split into its componentvillages by Sparta in 385
after the Peace of Antalcidas (X. H. v. ii. 5, 7, D.S. xv.5. iv,
12. ii) but reunited in 370 (X. H. VI. v. 3-5). Helisson will not
have been oneof the original component villages, but will have most
probably been absorbed intoMantinea either shortly before 385 or
shortly after 370 (Te Riele prefers the former;but Thur&
TaeuberinIPArk. date this text C.350-340 (?) and Orchomenus
c.36o-350):according to Paus. VIII. 27. iii, vii, it was one of the
communities incorporated into thenew city of Megalopolis in the
360s, but it appears to have been independent in thehellenistic
period and many disbelieve in Pausanias' list (e.g. T. H. Nielsen
in Hansen& Raaflaub [edd.], Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis,
85 n. 16).Ll. 3-IO have figured prominently in the discussions of
the Copenhagen PolisCentre about the significance of the words
polis and kome. 2 We believe that what isAtlas, map 58, has a site
further to the north-west). Mantinea, Helisson, and Orchomenus are
all shown inNielsen & Roy, map 3; the location ofEuaemon is
unknown.2 See M. H. Hansen in Hansen [ed.], Sources for the Ancient
Greek City State, 39, Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis,73-4,
Nielsen [ed.], Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis, 29, 35;
Rhodes in Sources, 96-7; Nielsen in Studies,85 with n. 16; id. in
Hansen & Raaflaub [edd.], More Studies in the Ancient Greek
Polis, 67-70; Hansen in FlenstedJensen[ed.], Further Studies in the
Ancient Greek Polis, 196-7-
5 TWV oawv Kai oi MavTLvij" cpEp[ 0 This is perhaps the earliest
surviving text relating to the kind of synoikismos by whicha lesser
community makes a pact of sympoliteia (~oint citizenship') with a
greater, it isabsorbed into the greater community, and its citizens
become citizens of the greatercommunity. Other instances include
Buck 21 = Svt. 297 = IPArk. IS, revised by S.Dusanic, BCH cii 1978,
333-46, by which Euaemon was similarly absorbed into
ArcadianOrchomenus, perhaps c.378 (to be cited below as
Orchomenus); OCIS 229 =Svt. 492 = IK Magnesia ad Sipylum I ~ Austin
182, by which Magnesia ad Sipylum wasabsorbed into Smyrna, in Asia
Minor, after 243 (to be cited as Smyrna); IC IX. i 32 =SIC" 647 =
BuckS6, by which Medeon was absorbed into Stiris, in Phocis, 2nd
century(to be cited as Stiris); a recently discovered agreement by
which Pidasa was absorbedinto Latmus, in Asia Minor, 323-3I3ir2,
calls the arrangement a politeuma (EA xxix1997,135-42 = SEC xlvii
1563, to be cited below as Latmus: politeumall. 32-3,41).Before
this inscription was found, the 'Elisphasians' were known from a
coin andfrom Polyb. Xl. II. vi: Helisson was one of the Maenalian
communities south-west ofMantinea. 1 Mantinea was originally
synoecized c-470 (Str. 337. VIII. iii. 2 with S. & H.1 For the
site (slightly more than half-way on a straight line from
Megalopolis to Orchomenus) see 1. A.Pikoulas, h6pos xiii 1999,
97-132 at 125-6 with 113-14 maps 1-2, cf. in Nielsen & Roy,
262-3, 312 (but Barrington
Corcyra, Acarnania, et Cephallenia joignent la 2e ligue
athnienne, 375/4Four fragments of a stele, found on the Athenian
Acropolis; now in the Epigraphical Museum. Phot. Kirchner,
Imagines2, Taf. 24 Nr. 51 (11. 16-27). Attic-Ionic, sometimes but
not always retaining the old for t and for ou. Line 1. in larger
letters; ll. 2 sqq. stoichedon 40.IG II2; SIG3 150; Tod 126*; Svt.
262. Trans. Harding 41. See also Cargill, The SecondAthenianLeague,
esp. 71-4, 109-II; C. Tuplin, Ath.2 lxii 1984, 537-68.
