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Headword:
*)orofh\
Adler number: omicron,628
Translated headword: roof
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
o)rofh/] and
o)/rofos: the covering of a house.[1]
[Found in] both feminine and masculine [forms].[2] "I will not stretch my Persian slippers up towards the roof [
o)/rofon]."[3]
Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. And in
Wasps: "survey the roof [
o)rofh\n]."[4]
*)orofh\ kai\ *)/orofos: h( ste/gh. kai\ qhlukw=s kai\ a)rsenikw=s. ou) pro\s to\n o)/rofon a)natenw= ta\ *persika/. *)aristofa/nhs. kai\ e)n *sfhci/n: o)rofh\n qe/asai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron520 Theodoridis), and cf. also the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 229 [below].
[2] This and what follows comes from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 173 (where the genitive of
o)rofh/ occurs).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 229, repeated 230 (but read
tw\ (dual) instead of the Suda's
ta\: web address 1). This is part of the oath by which the women swear to sexual passivity; cf. under
kappa 2666.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1215 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 13 April 2010@14:38:46.
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