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Headword:
*krath/r
Adler number: kappa,2338
Translated headword: mixing-bowl
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "They placed three mixing-bowls at the dinner: no.1 for Hermes, no.2 for Charisios, no.3 for Zeus Soter".[1] And [there is] a proverb: "mixing-bowl of lawsuits", meaning receptacle of evils.[2]
Greek Original:*krath/r: trei=s krath=ras i(/stasan e)n tw=| dei/pnw|: a# *(ermh=|, b# *xarisi/w|, g# *dii\+ *swth=ri. kai\ paroimi/a: *krath\r dikw=n, a)nti\ tou= doxei=on kakw=n.
Notes:
[1] Quotation unidentifiable. If 'Charisios' is a diety, he is otherwise unattested as such.
[2] cf.
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 936-7: "it will be a vessel good for everything, a mixing-bowl of evils, a pestle of lawsuits".
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; food; imagery; law; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 July 2007@08:18:41.
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