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Headword:
*la/ktin
Adler number: lambda,71
Translated headword: pestle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: What they call a stirrer, a ladle, which is [to say] a soup-ladle. "Well-made pestle".[2]
Greek Original:*la/ktin: th\n legome/nhn kw/talin, toru/nhn, o(/ e)sti zwmh/rusin. eu)erge/a la/ktin.
Notes:
[1] The noun -- quoted from
Callimachus: see next note -- and its glosses are all in the accusative singular. Not the usual word for a pestle, which may be
doi=duc (e.g.
Aristophanes,
Knights 283),
tribeu/s (e.g.
Aristophanes,
Peace 259), or
a)litri/banos (
Aristophanes,
Peace 258, 265 and 270). For
doi=duc see in particular
delta 1560 and for
a)litri/banos see
alpha 1146.
[2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.286, repeated by
Nicander,
Theriaca 109. (A modern reader might object that a pestle is not at all like a ladle.)
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 23 March 2007@20:01:22.
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