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Headword: Latrês
Adler number: lambda,147
Translated headword: hireling, servant
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[la/trhs, genitive] la/trou. But in the feminine [it is] la/tris, [meaning] handmaid, female slave, beggar-woman.[1]
"[...] who dedicated these mountain's [ = mountaineer's] garments and blond locks, fearing the half-female servant of the goddess."[2]
Greek Original:
Latrês, latrou. thêlukôs de Latris, therapaina, doulê, prosaitis. deisas hêmigunaika theês latrin: hos tad' oreia enduta kai xanthous ekremase plokamous.
Notes:
[1] cf. lambda 148; also, for cognate words, lambda 145, lambda 146, lambda 149. In fact la/tris has common gender.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.217.9-10 (attributed to Simonides), partly quoted again at omicron 541; see the note there. Find further extracts from this epigram at alpha 3019, beta 473, epsilon 1196, and eta 482. For 'half-female servant of the goddess' see under gamma 41.
Keywords: clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; gender and sexuality; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 February 2005@00:45:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 22 February 2005@02:55:44.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 22 February 2005@16:05:16.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2) on 23 February 2005@08:46:26.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 3 April 2013@07:57:57.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 3 April 2013@19:34:03.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 July 2013@08:43:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 19 April 2019@23:42:42.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.2, added cross-references) on 13 May 2022@11:19:49.
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