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Headword:
*xitw/n
Adler number: chi,320
Translated headword: chiton, tunic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A man's garment.
"And a sleeved short tunic [xitwni/skos xeiridwto/s], such as befits a slave boy."[1]
A chiton, therefore, is a lightweight garment, an undershirt; [the word is derived] from the fact that it flows [e)gxei=sqai] on the limbs.[2]
"Wearing a chiton of fleecy wool underneath; and even if he deceived [them] saying these things, he would pop up around the fish." That is, he would appear around the fish-shops. That is, he would be found cutting.[3]
Interpretation of a dream: a ripped chiton ripped away a weight of worries."[4]
Greek Original:*xitw/n: i(ma/tion a)ndriko/n. kai\ xitwni/skos xeiridwto/s, oi(=os pre/pei dou/lw| paidi/. *xitw\n ou)=n e)sti lepto\n i(ma/tion, u(poka/mison: para\ to\ e)gxei=sqai toi=s me/lesi. xitw=na/ g' e)/xwn ou)/lwn e)ri/wn u(pe/nerqen. ka)\n tau=ta le/gwn e)capath/sh|, peri\ tou\s i)xqu/as a)ne/kuye. toute/stin a)nafai/netai peri\ ta\ i)xquopw/lia. toute/sti glu/fwn eu(ri/sketai. lu/sis o)nei/rou: xitw\n r(agei\s e)/rrhce fronti/dwn ba/ros.
Notes:
[1]
Procopius,
Secret History 9.9 (web address 1), on the empress Theodora (cf.
alpha 956 note) as a young girl; cf. Kaldellis (41).
[2] This gloss and etymology appear in the A and D
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 2.42 (where the headword occurs in the accusative,
xitw=na: web address 2 below). See also
chi 335.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1067-1068 (web address 3); what follows in the entry is from the
scholia to line 1068.
[4] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; children; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; epic; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; imagery; meter and music; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 March 2008@00:34:22.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 30 March 2008@08:00:34.
David Whitehead on 11 November 2013@08:49:58.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 27 May 2023@23:00:31.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1; added bibliography, cross-reference, keyword, and link) on 13 May 2024@11:53:38.
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