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Headword: *ai(masia/
Adler number: alphaiota,189
Translated headword: stone-fence
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. The term for] a wall built out of rubble without mortar in Herodotos;[1] what some [call] hedge-fence. Also the Ionians use [the word] thus. Herodotos makes [this] clear in his first [book]. But colloquially most people call that place which is enclosed by stone-fences a ai(masia/.
Greek Original:
*ai(masia/: to\ e)k xali/kwn w)|kodomhme/non teixi/on a)/neu phlou= para\ *(hrodo/tw|: h(/n tines a(/rpezon. kai\ *)/iwnes ou(/tw xrw=ntai. dhloi= de\ *(hro/dotos e)n th=| prw/th|. fau/lws de\ oi( polloi\ to\ xwri/on tou=to ai(masiw=n periexo/menon ai(masia\n kalou=sin.
Notes:
Similarly in Photius and other lexica.
See also alphaiota 190.
[1] Herodotos 1.180.2, with the gloss there.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 10 February 2003@23:42:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 11 February 2003@03:16:51.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 14 May 2012@09:58:33.
David Whitehead (another note) on 26 November 2015@03:13:15.
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