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Headword:
*kna/fos
Adler number: kappa,1853
Translated headword: carding-comb
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A particular tool, with spikes in a circle, with which they kill those being tortured; it is similar to a fuller's comb.
Greek Original:*kna/fos: o)/rgano/n ti e)n ku/klw| ke/ntra e)/xon, di' ou(= tou\s basanizome/nous ktei/nousin: o(/moion de/ e)sti knafikw=| kteni/.
Note:
For this headword in another sense see
kappa 1854. The present entry is the same in
Photius (kappa812 Theodoridis); also
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon s.v. for its first part. The present headword is not extant in
Plato, but see e.g.
Herodotus 1.92.4 on Croesus' treatment of Pantaleon (web address 1); cf.
Plutarch,
On the Malice of Herodotus 858F.
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2008@04:15:45.
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