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Headword:
*kleige/nhs
Adler number: kappa,1744
Translated headword: Kleigenes, Cligenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[Kleigenes] the Small, the most rascally bathman of all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." "Ash-mixing" [is] ash mixed with soda. "Kimolian" [is a kind of] white earth. So he is saying that [Kleigenes] is most rascally [skilled] in every earth which bathmen master, Kimolian and ash and the similar stuff. He is introducing him as a bathman, small in stature.
Greek Original:*kleige/nhs o( mikro/s, o( ponhro/tatos balaneu/s: o(po/soi kratou=si kukhsite/frou yeudoni/trou te koni/as, kai\ kimwli/as gh=s. kukhsite/frou, kukw/shs te/fran memigme/nhn tw=| ni/trw|. kimwli/a de\ leukh\ gh=. le/gei ou)=n, o(/ti ponhro/tato/s e)sti pa/shs gh=s, o(/shs oi( balanei=s kratou=si, kimwli/as kai\ te/fras kai\ loiph=s toiau/ths. w(s balane/a de\ au)to\n ei)sa/gei, mikro\n to\ sw=ma.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 November 2008@07:55:05.
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