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Headword: *ai)cwneu/s
Adler number: alphaiota,240
Translated headword: Aixonian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a slanderer.[1]
It also means one who buys goats.[2]
Greek Original:
*ai)cwneu/s: o( bla/sfhmos. shmai/nei de\ kai\ to\n ta\s ai)=gas w)nou/menon.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. Perhaps from a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 895, where the headword occurs in the accusative case (as a deme-name; cf. alphaiota 242): web address 1 below.
[1] cf. alphaiota 239, alphaiota 241, alphaiota 242.
[2] As if from ai)/c "goat" and w)ne/omai "buy."
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 September 2002@23:49:11.
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David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 September 2002@03:02:14.
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Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 16 May 2012@00:57:49.
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