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*nausikra/ths
Adler number: nu,71
Translated headword: Nausicrates, Nausikrates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A comic [dramatist]. Amongst his plays is Shipowners, [and] Persian Woman.[1]
'Ship-master' [naukrates], however, is what someone liked to say in reference to a ship-securer [anchor]; as being the same thing, i.e. to secure a ship, hence ship-securer, and to control a ship, hence ship-master.[2]
Greek Original:*nausikra/ths, kwmiko/s. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)sti *nau/klhroi, *persi/s. *naukra/thn me/ntoi ei)pei=n e)fi/lhse/ tis e)pi\ e)xenhi/+dos fa/nai: w(s tauto\n o)\n e)/xein, h)/goun e)pe/xein nh=a, o(/qen h( e)xenhi/+s, kai\ nau=n kratei=n, o(/qen o( naukra/ths.
Notes:
[1] C4 BCE (Middle Comedy); Kassel-Austin, PCG 7.33-35. For the first of these titles see
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 7.296A (7.47 Kaibel), 7.325E (7.127 Kaibel), 7.330B (7.139 Kaibel); for the second, id. 9.399E-F (9.61 Kaibel).
[2] For this material (which has no substantive connection with
Nausicrates) see already at
epsilon 3990 and
epsilon 3991.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 September 2008@04:33:49.
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