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Headword: *xameu/nh
Adler number: chi,75
Translated headword: ground-sleeper
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] he who makes his bed on the ground. Also [sc. attested is] a feminine form xameu/nh ["cot"], [meaning] a low couch.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "certainly [I would] not [put down rushes] on my cot, at least not if I had a bed cord."[2]
Greek Original:
*xameu/nhs: o( xamai\ eu)nazo/menos. kai\ qhluko\n *xameu/nh, tapeinh\ kli/nh. *)aristofa/nhs: ou)d' a)\n xameu/nh| pa/nu ge keiri/an g' e)/xwn.
Notes:
[1] Very similar entry, so far, in Hesychius (chi143).
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 816 (web address 1 below); cf. kappa 1479. See also Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum Magnum 806.28.
Associated internet address:
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 March 2008@18:32:09.
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