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Headword: *)antrw=nes
Adler number: alpha,2768
Translated headword: Antrones
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A city in Thessaly.[1]
Also [sc. attested is a proverb] "Antronian donkey"; as very large ones occur in Antrones.[2]
Greek Original:
*)antrw=nes: po/lis e)n *qettali/a|. kai\ *)antrw/nios o)/nos: w(s megi/stwn ginome/nwn e)n *)antrw=sin.
Notes:
[1] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on its mention in Demosthenes 10.9. (Stephanus of Byzantium gives its name in the singular, Antron.)
[2] From Photius, and also in some of the paroemiographers; originally Pherecrates fr. 15 Kock, now 16 K.-A.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; geography; proverbs; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 October 2000@09:42:45.
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