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Headword:
*kasalba/des
Adler number: kappa,446
Translated headword: whores
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] courtesans, that is women permanently positioned at a brothel and a building,[1] offering themselves to all-comers for a fee.
Greek Original:*kasalba/des: e(tai=rai, toute/stin a)ei\ e)pi\ te/gous kai\ oi)kh/matos e(stw=sai gunai=kes, e)pi\ misqw=| pare/xousai toi=s boulome/nois e(auta/s.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 355, for which see at
kappa 448; and cf. also
kappa 447 for the singular of the present headword.
On this noun see generally J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 212-3 #469.
[1] Both of these terms, in fact, imply places of prostitution. For
te/gos see LSJ s.v., III. For 'building' see
omicroniota 60.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 March 2008@11:20:18.
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