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Headword:
Kothornos
Adler number: kappa,1909
Translated headword: buskin, boot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [An item of] footwear fitting either foot.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "what [is] the buskin of your journey?". As if, what have you come wearing on your feet?[2]
This [i.e. "Buskin"] was also the name for Theramenes, an Athenian orator and pupil of
Prodicus of
Keos. It referred to his constant shifts of position. For this man was enthusiastic both for the Thirty and for the democracy.[3]
The buskin fits both men and women as footgear.[4]
Kothornos: hupodêma amphoterodexion. Aristophanês: tis ho kothornos tês hodou; hoion ti hupodêsamenos parei; houtôs ekaleito kai Thêramenês, Athênaios rhêtôr, mathêtês Prodikou tou Keiou. eirêtai de epi tou strephomenou sunechôs. houtos gar kai tois l# sunespeude kai tôi plêthei. hoti ho kothornos andrasi kai gunaixi pros tas hupodeseis harmottei.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa857 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 994, with scholion. For modern comment see
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995) 552-3.
[3] See fully under
theta 342 (and
delta 234).
[4] From
delta 234.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 August 2001@04:06:30.
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