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|Definition=ατος, τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[honouring]], [[tending]], τύμβου <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>511</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[estimate]], [[valuation]], τ. τῆς ἀξίας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>622</span>; τὸ τ. ἐστι τῆς χώρας ἑξακις χιλίων ταλάντων <span class="bibl">D.14.19</span>, cf. Docum.ib.<span class="bibl">18.55</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span> 1274.14</span> (iii A.D.), etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[payment]], <b class="b3">τίμαμα hοίσοντι</b> will make [[payment]], Tab.Heracl.1.150, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGrenf.</span>2.67.12</span> (iii A.D.); <b class="b3">τὸ τ. ἔχων</b> having received the [[price]], <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.47</span>; pretium = [[τ. ἐπὶ τοῖς ὠνίοις καταβαλλόμενον]], <span class="title">Gloss.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> in legal sense, [[estimate of damages]] done: hence, [[penalty]], [[punishment]], [[fine]], τ. κλῳὸς σύκινος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>897</span>; <b class="b3">τί τίμημ' ἐπιγράψω τῇ δίκῃ</b>; <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pl.</span>480</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.27.16</span>, etc.; καὶ ἐγώ τε τῷ τ. ἐμμένω, καὶ οὗτοι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ap.</span>39b</span>; τ. δὲ [ἔστω], ὅ τι χρὴ πάσχειν ἢ ἀποτίνειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>941a</span>; <b class="b3">τιμάτω τὸ δικαστήριον τὸ τ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">907e</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">εἰς τὸ τ. ἀναβάς</b> rising to speak on [[the matter of the penalty]], <span class="bibl">D.19.290</span>; <b class="b3">πρᾶξαι Πειθίαν τὸ τ. τῆς ὕβρεως καὶ ἀποδοῦναί μοι</b> the [[damages]] for the assault, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEnteux.</span>74.17</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[cost]], [[expense]], <b class="b3">τῷ ἑαυτῆς τ</b>. at her own [[expense]], POxy.1208.4 (iii A.D.); κινδύνῳ καὶ πόρῳ καὶ τ. τῆς παντοίας μου ὑποστάσεως <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PStrassb.</span>40.20</span> (vi A.D.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFlor.</span>297.27</span> (vi A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> in political sense, <b class="b2">the value at which a citizen's property was rated</b> for taxation, his [[rateable property]], IG12.98.11, 22.2498.8, <span class="bibl">Lys.17.7</span>, <span class="bibl">19.48</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>945a</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἡ ἀπὸ τιμημάτων πολιτεία</b> a government <b class="b2">where the magistrates were chosen according to property, a timocracy</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>550c</span>; ἐκ τιμημάτων αἱ ἀρχαὶ καθίστανται <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span> 4.6.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>698b</span>; ἀπὸ τ. μακρῶν αἱ μεθέξεις τῶν ἀρχῶν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span> 1278a23</span>; <b class="b3">ἐκκλησιάζειν οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τιμήματος οὐθενὸς οἱ δ' ἀπὸ μακροῦ τ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">1294b3</span>; <b class="b3">δημοκρατικὸν τὸ μὴ ἀπὸ τιμήματος ὀλιγαρχικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τ</b>. ib. line <span class="bibl">9</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1306b13</span>: the τ. was calculated at so many years' purchase of the οὐσία, πεντεκαίδεκα ταλάντων τρία τάλαντα τίμημα <span class="bibl">D. 27.9</span>.</span>