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Headword:
*kegxrew/n
Adler number: kappa,1221
Translated headword: foundry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in the indictment[-speech]
Against Pantainetos [writes]: "and then he induced my slaves to go and sit in the foundry".[1] Meaning, in the purifying-place, where they used to dry the granules from the silver-mines.[2]
Greek Original:*kegxrew/n: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n th=| pro\s *pantai/neton grafh=|: ka)/peita e)/peise tou\s oi)ke/tas tou\s e)mou\s kaqe/zesqai ei)s to\n kegxrew=na. a)nti\ tou= ei)s to\ kaqaristh/rion, o(/pou th\n e)k tw=n meta/llwn die/yuxon ke/gxron.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
[1] A document quoted at
Demosthenes 37.26 (web address 1).
[2] Harpok. cites
Theophrastus (fr. 201 Fortenbaugh) for this extra information.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; philosophy; rhetoric; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 November 2000@06:00:56.
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