À propos du supposé ποι[ν]ίον « amende » de la loi de Cadys. Retour sur le groupe de ποινή, ἄποινα et leurs composés dans le vocabulaire juridique grec

In a Delphian inscription, a word ποι[ν]ίον has been restored in a fragmentary place. The word, which is a hapax, allegedly similar to ἐπιτίμιον ‘ fine’, has since been registered in dictionaries. The article concludes that the restoration ποι[ ν] ίον is very dubious. The study relies on a reexamination of the meaning of ποινή and its compounds ἄποινα, νηποινός, showing that the semantic evolution of these words has been misunderstood and must be revised, which also leads to a revision of the meaning of τιμή in Homer

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