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Headword:
*)en
paidotri/bou
Adler number: epsilon,1424
Translated headword: in (the) boys-trainer's (school)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] into the place where the boys exercise and pass their time.[1]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "when walking in [the] boys-trainer's [school] they had to put the thigh in front." That is to sit decorously, so as to show nothing unseemly to the bystanders.[2]
*)en paidotri/bou: ei)s to\n to/pon, o(/pou gumna/zontai kai\ diatri/bousin oi( pai=des. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: e)n paidotri/bou de\ badi/- zontas to\n mhro\n e)/dei probale/sqai. toute/stin eu)ko/smws kaqesqh=nai w(s mhde\n toi=s periestw=sin u(podei=cai a)/kosmon.
Notes:
The headword phrase is extracted from the quotation given.
For the grammatical idiom exemplified here see generally LSJ s.v.
e)n, A.1.2.
[1] cf.
pi 867.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 973 (web address 1), with scholion. The verse reads
kaqi/zontas "sitting" rather than
badi/zontas "walking" (the latter a slip rather than a true textual variant).
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; children; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 May 2007@13:45:54.
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