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Headword: *)hph/tria
Adler number: eta,432
Translated headword: needlewoman
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] she who stitches. Also [sc. attested is] h)ph/trion ["needle"], [meaning] the skewer with which they sew the hides.[1]
But the Attic-speakers [call it] a)ke/stria.[2]
Greek Original:
*)hph/tria: h( r(a/ptria. kai\ *)hph/trion, to\ soubli/on, meq' ou(= r(a/ptousi ta\ bursa/ria. oi( de\ *)attikoi\ a)ke/strian.
Notes:
[1] Similar glossing in other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 14.1.
[2] From alpha 841.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; trade and manufacture; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 October 2006@00:02:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified n.1; another keyword) on 19 October 2006@03:43:27.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2012@07:20:17.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 22 December 2012@18:51:33.
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