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Headword:
*kigkli/das
Adler number: kappa,1582
Translated headword: latticed gates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] particularly the double gates, the ones that they call double-folding. Or kinklis, [meaning] the hole, through which the key (kleis) is pushed.[1]
Greek Original:*kigkli/das: i)di/ws ta\s dipla=s qu/ras, a(/stinas dikli/das fasi/n. h)\ kigkli/s, h( o)ph/, di' h(=s h( klei\s pe/mpetai.
Notes:
The headword noun (cf.
kappa 1583) is here in the accusative plural. This form occurs in (e.g.)
Plutarch,
Caesar 68.1, and
Libanius,
Letters 119.3 and
Speeches 1.41. However, the entire definition is taken, with slight wording changes, from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 641, glossing
kigkli/da in the accusative singular.
[1] Apart from the
scholia to
Aristophanes (see above), the etymology is also alluded to by
Eustathius,
Commentary to the Iliad III p. 420 van der Valk, deriving both
dikli/s (the "double-folding" of the definition) and
kigkli/s from
klei/s.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 20 November 2008@05:51:23.
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