[Meaning] a snare/trap in a garden.
*khpai/a: h( e)n tw=| kh/pw| pagi/s.
Same entry, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon; very similar one in ps.-
Zonaras. It has probably been generated by the genitive of the headword (a feminine noun) in
Hermippus fr. 47 Kock (preserved by
Athenaeus,
Deipnosphists 15.668A = 15.6 Kaibel), now 48 K.-A.: "as for the unhappy pan, you may see that resting beside the socket of the
khpai/a in a pile of sweepings". Without any further information, the Suda and ps.-
Zonaras assumed that the thing in a garden with a socket was some kind of snare or trap. But
Pollux names the
khpai/a qu/ra as a part of the house in 1.76, and as a derivative of
kh=pos in 9.13; garden doors are also mentioned in
Diogenes Laertius 7.25. This reading is accepted by LSJ s.v.
khpai=os II.
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