Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for kappa,981 in Adler number:
Headword:
*katerrinhme/nois
Adler number: kappa,981
Translated headword: filed-down
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones that are] cheap[1] or smooth-polished. For a file [is] a carpenter's tool, with which they file [things].[2] Or cheap, because they reduce the value [of a coin] with a file.
Aristophanes [writes] about
Euripides: "to say something witty and filed-down."[3]
*katerrinhme/nois: eu)tele/sin h)\ katecesme/nois. r(i/nh ga\r e)rgalei=on tektoniko/n, w(=| r(inou=sin. h)\ eu)tele/sin, o(/ti e)ceuteli/zomen th=| r(i/nh|. *)aristofa/nhs peri\ *eu)ripi/dou: a)stei=o/n ti le/cai kai\ katerrinhme/non.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica, beginning with
Hesychius. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested) is perfect middle/passive participle of
katarrina/w, masculine or neuter dative plural.
[2] See
rho 169 for this noun.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 902 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
alpha 4234,
lambda 441.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; economics; imagery; rhetoric; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 March 2009@21:44:06.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search