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The decision reached through arbitration was that Neaira should be free, that she should return to Phrynion nearly everything she took from his house, and that she should spend her time alternately with Phrynion and Stephanos.

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ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ: arbitration could take place in various public locations; it is unclear which temple this is. Carey 1992: 110 says: “The venue would guarantee solemnity and freedom from interruption, besides of course providing space for the proceedings.”

ἀμφοτέρων καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς ἀνθρώπου: “from each man and from the woman herself.” See G. 509. 

ἀπεφήναντο < ἀποφαίνομαι + γνώμην, “to declare an opinion”

ἐνέμειναν < ἐμμένω (+ dat.); here, governs αὐτῇ (which refers back to γνώμην)

τὴν ἄνθρωπον: ἄνθρωπος can be used in the feminine “contemptuously, of female slaves” or “with a sense of pity” (LSJ ἄνθρωπος II).

εἶναι…ἀποδοῦναι…συνεῖναι…εἶναι…παρέχειν…εἶναι…μνησικακεῖν: take all of these infinitives as part of the indirect statement introduced by ἀπεφήναντο γνώμην.

ἠγοράσθη: ”were purchased” < ἀγοράζω

ἡμέραν παρ’ ἡμέραν: “day by day,” i.e., “alternating every day”

ἀλλήλους πείθωσι: “persuade each other,” i.e., “agree” on some other arrangement

κύρια: “binding”

τὸν ἔχοντα ἀεί: ἀεί can mean “at any given time”; here, “the one having [her] at any given time”

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γνωσθεῖσα: “determined, pronounced” < γιγνώσκω (LSJ II.1)

διαλλαγή: “reconciliation”

ἀναγνώσεται: ”will read aloud” < ἀναγιγνώσκω; supply as subject the clerk in the courtroom.

διαλλάξαι: “arranged a reconciliation,” aor. act. infin. < διαλλάσσω

Διαλλαγαί: most scholars (cf. Carey 1992: 110–11) believe that this is not the genuine document issuing from the arbitration, since it doesn’t include all the terms of the arbitration (Kapparis 1999: 262–63). Dilts 2009 brackets it in his text, following Westermann.

χρῆσθαι: the verb (which takes the dative) can imply anything from spending time together to sexual intercourse. See LSJ χράομαι IV.b.

τὰς ἴσας ἡμέρας: “an equal number of days”

παρ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς: “at their respective houses”