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Headword: *nida/rion
Adler number: nu,369
Translated headword: nidarion, turban
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Among Persians [sc. this term means] the wrapping for the head, which among Athenians is called a krw/bulos, but among Cypriots a kordu/lh; as Kreon [writes] in the first [book] of his Rhetoric.[1]
Greek Original:
*nida/rion: para\ *pe/rsais to\ pro\s kefalh=| prosei/lhma, o(\ dh\ par' *)aqhnai/ois kalei=tai krw/bulon, para\ de\ *kupri/ois kordu/lh: w(s *kre/wn e)n tw=| prw/tw| tw=n *(rhtorikw=n.
Notes:
From epsilon 86; see also phi 28.
[1] Kypriaka, rather; see under phi 28. Kreon, whose sole surviving fragment this is, is FGrH 753.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 January 2009@17:41:20.
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David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 23 January 2009@03:10:37.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 25 January 2009@03:49:46.
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