Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators

§ ph3 Phanias: proper name, one of those who held the office of strategos.

§ ph4 Phanostrate: Demosthenes, Against Androtion. Apollodoros in On the Courtesans at Athens says that she was nicknamed “Lousegate”, since she used to pick lice while standing in the doorway.

§ ph5 Pharmakos (scapegoat): Lysias in Against Andokides for impiety, if it is genuine. They used to lead away two men at Athens, to be purificatory offerings for the city at the Thargelia, one on behalf of the men and the other on behalf of the women. And that Pharmakos is a proper name, and that having stolen Apollo's sacred phialai and having been caught, he was stoned to death by Achilles' men, and that the things performed at the Thargelia are imitations of this, Istros has said in the first book of The Epiphanies of Apollo. When Demosthenes, in Against Aristogeiton, says, “So, this man, this pharmakos, will remove him?!” Didymos would urge accenting the word with circumflex on the penult. But we do not find such use anywhere.

§ ph6 Pharmakonta (being drugged): Demosthenes in Against Stephanus. He who has suffered harm from drugs'is drugged', as Theophrastos also indicates in book 15 of the Laws.

§ ph7 Phasis (denunciation): It is said also applying to a public charge whenever one declares that someone possesses any public property though he does not purchase it, and it is also said applying to orphans' houses. For whenever guardians did not lease out the house of those whose guardians they were, he who wished used to denounce him (the guardian) to the archon, so that it may be let. He used to denounce him also if it had been let for less than its worth. Of the first kind it is possible to find evidence in Deinarchos and Demosthenes, and of the denunciation concerning orphans' houses (it is possible to find evidence) in Lysias, in Against the Denunciation of the Orphan's House.

§ ph8 Phaskolon: A certain pouch used to be called so among them; Isaios and Lysias in Against Dion, (and) Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazousai.

§ ph9 Phayllos: Demosthenes in Against Aristocrates. Onomarchos was tyrant of the Phocians. While he was alive his brother Phayllos ruled jointly with him.

§ ph10 Phellea: Isaios in On the Estate of Kiron. They used to call rocky and goat -feeding areas'phelleas' (stony). Kratinos in the Horae, Aristophanes in the Clouds.

§ ph11 Phegaieusi: Lysias in On his Own Benefactions. Phegaies is a deme of the tribe Aiantis, as Diodoros says.

§ ph12 Phelomata (deceptions): Antiphon in On Concord,'deceptions.' For'to deceive' is'pheloun' (to deceive).

§ ph13 Phegousion: Lysias in Concerning the Murder of Batrachos. Phegous is a deme of the tribe Erechtheis.

§ ph14 Phthoen (wasting): Demosthenes in On the Children of Lykourgos, and Isokrates in the Aiginetikos. What is now called'phthisis' (comsumption) they used to call'phthoe.'.

§ ph15 Philammon: Demosthenes, For Ktesiphon, (says that) Philammon the Athenian (is) a boxer.

§ ph16 Philepsios: Demosthenes, Against Timokrates. The poets of old comedy mention Philepsios, with reference to his telling tales in the middle of assembly speeches. And he has been ridiculed also for knavery.

§ ph17 Philiskos: Demosthenes. Proper name.

§ ph18 Philosophein: For'to work hard' and'to practice,' Isokrates in “On the Peace.” Menander in Thrasyleon: “He works hard at this so that he may achieve the marriage for himself.”.

§ ph19 Philotesia: Demosthenes in Against Aischines. The kylix (wine cup) that, in friendship, they used to give to their friends was called a philotesia (friendship cup), as Hypereides says, and Alexis.

§ ph20 Phimoi (muzzles): Aischines, Against Timarchos: “and muzzles and other dicing implements.” The so-called'kemos' (muzzle) is a'phimos' (muzzle/cup), into which (dice) used to be thrown, as the lexicographers say. Diphilos in Synoris: “Slide the muzzle to the middle so that he may throw (the dice) in.”.

§ ph21 Phlyea: Isaios in On the Estate of Kiron. Phlyeis was a deme of the tribe Kekropis. Euripides the tragic poet was from this deme.

§ ph22 Phorbanteion: Hypereides in Against Patrokles. That the Phorbanteion at Athens was named after Phorbas, who was king of the Kouretes and slain by Erechtheus, Andron has shown in book eight of Kinsmen. Phorbas was also a son of Poseidon, as Hellenikos says in book one of Atthis.

§ ph23 Phorine (skin): Antiphon, book two of On Truth. That phorine was also said applying to human skin, Aristomenes also makes clear in Goetes.

§ ph24 Phrateres: Demosthenes in On the Name. The third part of the tribe is a phratry, and those who have a share in the same phratry are phrateres, and to have a share in the same phratry is phratrizein. And the leader of the phratry is a phratriarchos.

§ ph25 Phrearrios: Demosthenes, For Ktesiphon. It is a deme of the tribe Leontis.

§ ph26 Phroudos (gone): Antiphon in On the Murder of Herodes for'out of the way.' The word appears among many (authors).

§ ph27 Phryktoron (making smoke signals): Phryktorein is properly to indicate anything via fires that are lofted up. Deinarchos in his speech in support of Aischines Against Deinias.

§ ph28 Phrynondas: Aischines, Against Ktesiphon. He was, among Athenians, notorious for wickedness, no less than Eurybatos.

§ ph29 Phrynon: Demosthenes, Against Aischines. He was one of the ten ambassadors with Aischines and Demosthenes.

§ ph30 Phylarch (tribal commander): Demosthenes in the Phillipics. The commander of the cavalry for each tribe, and appointed under the hipparch (cavalry commander), as Aristotle says in the Constitution of the Athenians.

§ ph31 Phyle: Isokrates in On the Peace. Phyle is a deme of the tribe Oineis. Menander in Dyskolos: “Imagine that the place is in Attica, / Phyle, and that the shrine of the Nymphs from which I come / belongs to the Phylasians.” Philochoros in book seven of Atthis says that it is a fort.

§ ch1 Charaka (stake): Demosthenes: the palisade that some used to enclose a camp with for safety. Menander in Aspis: “For many, having left behind the palisade, started plundering the villages.”.

§ ch2 Chalkeia: Hypereides in Against Demeas for xenia. The Chalkeia is a festival celebrated by Athenians for Athena on the first day of Pyanepsion, shared in by handicraftsmen and especially by bronzeworkers, as Apollonios the Acharnian says. But Phanodemos says that the festival was celebrated not for Athena but for Hephaistos. And also a play has been written by Menander (called) Chalkeia.

§ ch3 Charikles: one of the Thirty: Lysias.

§ ch4 Chernibon (water bowls): Demosthenes in Against Androtion: “grasping water bowls and baskets.” The genitive plural chernibon could be from the nominative chernips. For the comic poets too have mentioned the water-bowl as taken along for sacrifices. Aristophanes, at any rate, in Birds, says, “Slave, slave, fetch the basket and the water bowl.”.

§ ch5 Chilioi diakosioi (1200): Isaios in Against Ischomachos says, “there is no Lysides among the 1200.” The wealthiest of Athenians were 1200, who also used to perform liturgies. Other orators too mention them, as does Philochoros in the sixth book. Lysias in Against Kleinias and Isaios in the supporting speech For Nikias used the perfect number, saying 1000.

§ ch6 Chiliothenta (having been fined a thousand drachmas): Lykourgos in Against Aristogeiton for'having incurred a fine of a thousand (drachmas).' The same orator in Against Kephisodotos says that he “has been fined a thousand drachmas.”.

§ ch7 Chilon: proper name: Aischines.

§ ch8 Chledos (sludge): Demosthenes in Against Kallikles concerning damage to a plot: “and next, having cast the sludge into the road, as a result of which he happened to have made the same road higher and narrower.” The whole mass is called'sludge,' and it is a sort of heap, and especially of dross and waste, and the deposit of rivers, and much more of winter torrents, which is also called silt. Here, the orator seems to say that Kallikles has cast into the road a pile and a brush heap from his land, as he himself also indicates in what follows. Many have used the word. Aischylos in the Argive Women: “casting missiles and javelins and refuse.”.

§ ch9 Choes (jugs): Demosthenes in On the Name. It was a festival held among Athenians on the twelfth of Anthesterion. Apollodoros says that the entire festival altogether, held for Dionysos, was called the Anthesteria, but by parts, the Pithoigia, Choes, and Chytroi.

§ ch10 Cholargeus: Isaios in On the Estate of Kiron. Cholargia is a deme of the tribe Akamantis..

§ ch11 Cholleidai: Lysias [says]. A deme of the Leontis [tribe].

§ ch12 Chrestai (creditors/borrowers): The word denotes two opposed things. For (it denotes) lenders, as in Isaios in Against Kalydon and in Aristophanes in Clouds. For he says: “By interest and most troublesome creditors / I am led away, carried off, and have my property seized.” Others, including, Demosthenes, in the counter-suit For Phormion, have used the word applying to one who borrows; also in the counter-suit Against Zenothemis he says, “the lenders, having been deceived from the start, seeing that instead of money they had a wicked man as a debtor, and nothing else.”.

§ ch13 Chrysis (gold vessel): Phiale: Demosthenes in Against Androtion, Aristophanes in Peace.

§ ch14 Chrysochoein (to smelt for gold): Deinarchos in Against Pytheas: “for again when he quit attending Aischines (to be) by this man, it is clear that he was learning to smelt gold but not to do what was set before him or to experience it.” Plato too has used the proverb in book 5 of the Republic, saying, "'What?' said Thrasymachos,'Do you think that these people now have come here to smelt gold but not to listen to arguments?'" They say that the proverb began hence: a rumor once fell on the mass of Athenians that on Hymettos a great dusting of gold had appeared and was guarded by battle ants. Having taken up arms they rushed out against them. But having returned unsuccessful and having suffered ill in vain, they began joking with each other, saying, “but you were thinking that you would be smelting gold,” which means,'but you were thinking that having gathered much gold dust and having smelted it you would be rich.' And they were made fun of also by the comic poets. Euboulos at any rate in Glaukos says, “We once persuaded Kekropian men, taking up arms and three days' grain, to depart for Hymettos against ants, on grounds that dust wrought of gold had appeared.”.

§ ch15 Chytroi: Lysias in Against Aischines concerning the confiscation of Aristophanes' property: “Since, then, Demaratos was convicted of betraying the Chytroi.” There is a city on Cyprus so called, as Xenagoras says in Islands. There is also an Attic festival, Chytroi, which Deinarchos mentions in Against Pytheas. The festival is held on the thirteenth of Anthesterion, as Philochoros says in On Festivals.

§ ps1 Pseudengraphe [false-listing]: The name of a court action introduced by people listed as owing a debt to the state, when they have been falsely accused by the person who listed them on the wooden tablets located near the goddess, that they are unfairly listed as owing to the state. Lykourgos in the Against Aristogeiton and Isaios in the Against Medon mention the word.

§ ps2 Pseudokleteia [False-summons]: The name of a court action introduced by people listed as owing a debt to the state, when they allege that people falsely provided witnesses of the summons against them for the court action for which they owe the debt. It occurs in other orators, and in Isaios in the Against Nikokles about land.

§ ps3 Psithyristes [Whisperer] Hermes: Demosthenes in the speech Against Neaera. There was in Athens a Hermes called thus. In Athens Psithyros [whisperer] Aphrodite and Eros the whisperer were also honoured.