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Headword: *(istiorra/fos
Adler number: iota,691
Translated headword: sail-patcher
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who is] knavish. From a metaphor of those who stitch rigging. And the Egyptians are linen-makers. Aristophanes [writes]: "a sail-mender almost [took] this woman".
Greek Original:
*(istiorra/fos: panou=rgos. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n ta\ a)/rmena r(apto/ntwn. kai\ oi( *ai)gu/ptioi de\ linopoioi/ ei)sin. *)aristofa/nhs: o)li/gou tau/thn i(stiorra/fos.
Notes:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 935 (web address 1). The line is misquoted here: it should be au)to/n "him".
For i)sti/a see also iota 689, iota 690, iota 692, iota 693.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 April 2006@16:29:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 26 April 2006@03:21:11.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 16 January 2013@03:45:46.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 17 January 2013@00:24:11.
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