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Headword: Putinê
Adler number: pi,3260
Translated headword: pytine, wicker-flask
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A plaited thing [made] from green shoots, which Diitrephes the nouveau riche plaited. And elsewhere he [sc. Aristophanes] says 'Diitrephes with wicker-flask wings'.[1]
So a pytine [is] what we call a flaskion.[2]
Greek Original:
Putinê: plegma apo thallôn, haper Diïtrephês ho neoploutos epleke. kai allachou phêsi. Diïtrephês putinaia echôn ptera. Putinê oun, hoper legetai par' hêmin phlaskion.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Birds 798, with scholion; see already under pi 3259 (and delta 1054).
[2] Likewise in the Etymologicum Gudianum.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 March 2010@08:38:20.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 18 May 2010@22:02:05.
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