Βάπται (fr. 98)

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γάρ τούς τοιούτους έκάλουν παλιναιρέτους, καί τούς άποχειροτονηθέντας την
αρχήν καί πάλιν χειροτονηθέντας, Εΰπολίς τε έν Βάπταις δηλοϊ καί Άρχιππος έν τοΐς
Ίχθύσι λέγων (fr. 14)·-
palinairetos: Dinarchus in his Writ of Indictment against Polyeuktos after he was Expelled
(or. 2 fr. 4 Sauppe). Perhaps the orator refers173 to Polyeuktos as palinairetos... because
he was convicted as a sycophant and fined, and on that account was not permitted to
speak (in the Assembly) until he paid off the fine he owed; and then after he paid off
the fine, he spoke again (in the Assembly), as is also apparent in the speech. For that
they referred to such individuals as palinairetoi, as also to those who were voted
out of office and then elected again, Eupolis makes clear in Baptai, as does Archippus
in Ichthyes when he says (fr. 14):-

Discussion Fritzsche 1835. 238; Delneri 2006. 353
Citation context A gloss on an obscure Athenian legal or administrative
term, probably drawing on a lost Hellenistic source or sources.
Interpretation Harpocration or his source is patently guessing about the
meaning of παλιναίρετος (literally “taken again”), which Dinarchus (late
4th/early 3rd c. BCE) must have used of Polyeuktos (PA 11928; PAA 778035)
without explanation as having an obvious meaning for his original audience.
An ενδειξις was a type of public suit brought against an individual who was
barred from some place or activity but visited or participated in it nonethe-
less (Harp. p. 112.12-15 = E 48 Keaney), and another reference to the same
speech at Harp. p. 109.1-4 = E 30 Keaney shows that έκφυλλοφόρησις was
the voting procedure by which the Athenian Council decided whether one of
its members should be allowed to continue to serve. Although Archipp. fr. 14
is lacunose, the first line refers to the rejection of αίρουμένους ... πραγμάτων
έπιστάτας (“selected overseers of affairs”) and the fourth line to the danger
of άπαξάπαντας γενομένους παλιναιρέτους (“every single one of them being
palinairetos’), seemingly confirming Harpocration’s claim that this was a term
for someone removed from a magistracy but then selected for it again. The ad-
jective is first attested at Pi. fr. 84 (also preserved by Harpocration, who claims
that it was used there of buildings that were pulled down (καθαιρεθέντων) and
then reconstructed), and appears also at Nicostr. Com. fr. 24 έξωρμενικότες,
δυσχερείς, παλιναίρετοι (“shot forth, difficult, palinairetoi”·, perhaps from a
play called Rhetdr, “The Orator”).

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Not “The politician never speaks” (Rusten 2011. 230).