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Headword:
*katwna/khs
Adler number: kappa,1115
Translated headword: of a katonake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A katonake is] a tunic for slaves and not for free men.[1] "Depilated in the cunt katonake-fashion."[2] He is referring to the slave-women.
Greek Original:*katwna/khs: douliko\s kai\ a)neleu/qeros xitw/n. katwna/kh| to\n xoi=ron a)potetilme/nas. ta\s dou/las fhsi/.
Notes:
[1] On the katonake see already
kappa 1114. This genitive singular of the noun is probably quoted (despite what follows: see next note) from
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 1155.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 724 (web address 1), preceded by comment from the
scholia there. See generally J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 131-2, #110 on
xoi=ros as cunt and #111 on female genital depilation. But to be depilated "katonake-fashion" must mean either
not depilated (so Ussher ad loc.) or else depilated roughly and crudely.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, edited with introduction and commentary by R.G.Ussher (Oxford 1973 and reprints).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 July 2001@06:56:32.
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