Translation Check - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Query: 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
Translation Check
Quoted text:
Bernhard Laum placed great importance on the Greek aisymnetos, who was first found in the Odyssey as a judge at a match overseeing the wager, and the judge of communities in crisis situations. The word derived from the roots “symnos,” meaning “marker” as a musician marks time, and “aisios,” meaning the division of things. Thus the aisymnetos was the apportioner or divider.
Can someone who understands Greek check the philology here? And can someone with access to the Bernhard Laum texts (Über das Wesen des Münzgeldes: Eine sach und begriffsgeschichtliche Studie [Halle: 1929], pp. 37f. and Heiliges Geld: Eine historische Untersuchung Uber den sakralen Ursprung des Geldes [Tübingen: 1924]) who can understand German check this point made for us?
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