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γραμμα^τ-εῖον , τό,
A.that on which one writes, tablets, Ar.Fr.157, Antipho 1.10, Pl.Prt.326d, prob. in Gorg.Pal.6; tablet on which names, etc., are recorded, “λελευκωμένα γ.” Arist.Ath. 47.2, cf. D.46.11, IG12.91.11, etc.
2. bond, document, contract, Lys. 32.7; “κατὰ γραμματεῖον ἡταιρηκέναι” Aeschin.1.165, cf.POxy.1012 Fr. 9 ii 15; account-book, ledger, Ar.Nu.19, D.45.33: freq. written γραμμάτιον.
3. τὸ ληξιαρχικὸν γ. list in which Athenian citizens were enrolled, IG12.79, Is.7.27, D.57.26.
4. will, testament, Is.6.29.
5. pass(?), PPetr.3p.130.
6. memorandum, D.22.23, Jul. ad Ath. 283b; petition, Luc.Peregr.16.
II. place where γράμματα were taught, a school, Anon. ap. Suid.
III. office of γραμματεύς, Plb.4.87.8, Poll.9.41.
IV. public dining-hall in Syria, Posidon.18.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 165
    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 10
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 47.2
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    • Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 33
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    • Lysias, Against Diogeiton, 7
    • Plato, Protagoras, 326d
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.87.8
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 19
    • Lucian, De morte Peregrini, 16
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