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Headword: *dh=mos
Adler number: delta,452
Translated headword: country-district
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In Aristophanes [this means] the village. Or the island.[1]
It also means the demos of the Athenians.
"In the sixth year I addressed you, having come into the demos."[1]
Greek Original:
*dh=mos: para\ *)aristofa/nei h( kw/mh. h)\ h( nh=sos. shmai/nei de\ kai\ to\n tw=n *)aqhnai/wn dh=mon. e(/ktw| s' e)/tei prosei=pon e)s to\n dh=mon e)lqw/n.
Notes:
[1] The reference to an island, here and also (according to Adler) in the Ambrosian Lexicon, is obscure.
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 266. (The 'sixth year' dates from the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BCE.) The meaning of demos here is village, i.e. it illustrates not the meaning just given but the initial one.
Keywords: chronology; comedy; constitution; definition; geography; military affairs
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ on 30 March 2003@09:47:50.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (modified translation, added note and keywords) on 30 March 2003@11:02:55.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes) on 31 March 2003@02:06:03.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 9 October 2005@06:36:03.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 26 June 2012@06:30:41.
David Whitehead on 18 October 2015@04:43:21.
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