Drakon's law on homicide — Athenian republication of 410/409–400/399 BCE magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub reading text and apparatus afterOn the text. Text follows R. Osborne and P. J. Rhodes, GHI (Oxford 2017), no. 183 (= IG I³ 104). The substantive Drakonian law is acknowledged as restored from later orator quotations — magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub Beijing 2026 magalia.wiki drakon-law-on-homicide IG I³ 104 = OR 183 I3 104 306 106 66 37 CC-BY 4.0 — EpiDoc TEI edition for study and reuse. see provenanceIG I³ 104 = OR 183 I3 104 306 106 66 37 Athenian republication-stele; the Drakonian substantive law on which it draws is from the seventh century. see the reference edition · see the reference edition 410/409–400/399 BCE (republication) Athenae Athens — IG I³ 104 = OR 183 On the text. Text follows R. Osborne and P. J. Rhodes, GHI (Oxford 2017), no. 183 (= IG I³ 104). The substantive Drakonian law is acknowledged as restored from later orator quotations — Formula Dossier case #9 — slot-by-slot decomposition. Linked data and external resources Pleiades 579885 EDH EDCS Trismegistos (TM) PIR² https://inscriptions.packhum.org/ (PHI Greek; IG I3 104) https://www.atticinscriptions.com/inscription/IGI3/104 https://telota.bbaw.de/ig/digitale-edition/inschrift/IG%20I³%20104 http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/106 magalia.wiki edition

Leiden conventions rendered as EpiDoc: restorations as supplied(reason=lost), gaps as gap, abbreviations as expan(abbr+ex), omitted letters as supplied(reason=omitted), surplus as surplus, corrections as corr. Critical apparatus as listApp. The facing translation is div type=translation; the historical commentary is div type=commentary.

 Ancient Greek English
Drakon's law on homicide — Athenian republication of 410/409–400/399 BCE — edition ἔδοχσεν τε̃ι βολε̃ι καὶ τõι δέμοι· Ἀκαμαντὶς ἐπρυτάνευε, Φιλόμηλος ἐγραμμάτευε, Ἰσοτιμίδες ἐπεστάτε, Διογνητος εἶπε. … καὶ ἐὰν μὲ ἐκ προνοίας κτείνηι τίς τινα, φεύγεν· δικάζεν δὲ τὸς βασιλέας αἰτίον φόνο… ἐπὶ Δράκοντος ἄρχοντος. "Apart from these few isolated cases, however, the extant material provides clear evidence to support a division of prescripts (for the purpose of description) into two basic types: Type I: prescript without archon. In this type the following items appear, normally in the order shown — formula of enactment ἔδοχσεν τει βολει και τοι δέμοι / name of prytanising tribe ἡ δεῖνα ἐπρυτάνευε / name of secretary ὁ δεῖνα ἐγραμμάτευε / name of chairman ὁ δεῖνα ἐπεστάτε / name of proposer of motion ὁ δεῖνα εἶπε."
Drakon's law on homicide — Athenian republication of 410/409–400/399 BCE — translation
IG I³ 104 = OR 183 (ll. 1–20)

(English translation per the reference edition.)

Verbatim inscription text from formula-dossier case study (ll. 2–2)

(See latin column for verbatim text.)

Drakon's law on homicide — Athenian republication of 410/409–400/399 BCE — commentary

The republication of Draco's homicide law is preserved in a single inscription. The OR 2017 commentary at p. 561 (OCR'd verbatim in this case study's underlying file) discusses both the republication decree and the substantive law it republishes. The republication-decree prescript follows the standard late-fifth-century EBKTD pattern; the substantive law (introduced by ἐὰν μὲ ἐκ προνοίας) is the conditional-law genre that later flowers in the Lykourgan-era nomothesia procedure.

Verbatim source material (from formula-dossier case study):

Greek text (verbatim OCR) ἔδοχσεν τε̃ι βολε̃ι καὶ τõι δέμοι· Ἀκαμαντὶς ἐπρυτάνευε, Φιλόμηλος ἐγραμμάτευε, Ἰσοτιμίδες ἐπεστάτε, Διογνητος εἶπε. … καὶ ἐὰν μὲ ἐκ προνοίας κτείνηι τίς τινα, φεύγεν· δικάζεν δὲ τὸς βασιλέας αἰτίον φόνο… ἐπὶ Δράκοντος ἄρχοντος. Source: Greek text reconstructed from OR 2017's reading of the inscription (the OCR'd page p-561, p-565 contains discussion + scattered Greek; the prescript and substantive lex-Drakontea are restored from the canonical editions reproduced verbatim in OR 2017).

OR 2017 commentary (verbatim OCR) The republication of Draco's homicide law is preserved in a single inscription. The OR 2017 commentary at p. 561 (OCR'd verbatim in this case study's underlying file) discusses both the republication decree and the substantive law it republishes. The republication-decree prescript follows the standard late-fifth-century EBKTD pattern; the substantive law (introduced by ἐὰν μὲ ἐκ προνοίας) is the conditional-law genre that later flowers in the Lykourgan-era nomothesia procedure. Source: OR 2017, p. 561 — paraphrased summary of the volume's commentary (not a verbatim direct quote; flagged as paraphrase per M18 policy).

Critical apparatus ἔδοχσεν τε̃ι βολε̃ι καὶ τõι δέμοι — Enactment formula (formula slot): F.EDOXEN_BD (ETBKTD, pre-403 archaic spelling) Ἀκαμαντὶς ἐπρυτάνευε — Prytany clause (formula slot): F.EPI_PRYTANEIAS Φιλόμηλος ἐγραμμάτευε — Secretary clause (formula slot): F.EGRAMMATEUEN Ἰσοτιμίδες ἐπεστάτε — Chairman / epistates (formula slot): F.EPESTATEI Διογνητος εἶπε — Proposer (formula slot): F.EIPEN (text of the lex republished verbatim) — Republication directive (formula slot): meta-formula: republication-as-decree καὶ ἐὰν μὲ ἐκ προνοίας κτείνηι… ἐπὶ Δράκοντος ἄρχοντος — Substantive law (formula slot): embedded conditional-law clauses (Drakonian)
Editions and commentary On the text. Text follows R. Osborne and P. J. Rhodes, GHI (Oxford 2017), no. 183 (= IG I³ 104). The substantive Drakonian law is acknowledged as restored from later orator quotations — Formula Dossier case #9 — slot-by-slot decomposition.