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Theophrastus · Fragments §102.1

Tax Exemptions for Isoteles and Entire Cities

Passage 107 of 196 · Greek

Summary

A citation from Book 11 of Theophrastus' On Laws, discussing the tax exemption of the isoteles and cases where Athens voted tax immunity for entire cities.

§102.1Fr. 102 Ὅτι δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ἔπραττον οἱ μέτοικοι ἄφεσιν εἶχον οἱ ἰσοτελεῖς Θ. εἴρηκεν ἐν ἑνδεκάτῃ τῶν νόμων· οὗτος δέ φησιν ὡς ἐνιαχοῦ καὶ πόλεσιν ὅλαις ἐψηφίζοντο τὴν ἀτέλειαν Ἀθηναῖοι ὥσπερ Ὀλυνθίοις τε καὶ Θηβαίοις.
Fr. 102 And that those with equal tax-status had exemption from the other obligations which the resident aliens performed, Theophrastus has stated in the eleventh book of On Laws; and he says that in some cases the Athenians voted immunity from taxation even for entire cities, just as they did for the Olynthians and the Thebans.

Notes

  1. §102.1ὧν ἔπραττον — The relative pronoun ὧν has attracted to the genitive case of its antecedent τῶν ἄλλων (relative attraction). Structurally, it would originally have been the accusative ἃ as the direct object of the transitive verb ἔπραττον ('performed', 'paid').
  2. §102.1ὥσπερ Ὀλυνθίοις τε καὶ Θηβαίοις — Ὀλυνθίοις and Θηβαίοις are in the dative case, governed by the verb ἐψηφίζοντο ('voted'). Structurally, it is understood as an elliptical clause: ὥσπερ [ἐψηφίζοντο] Ὀλυνθίοις...

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Theophrastus, Fragments §102.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:102.1

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