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Headword:
*fimoi/
Adler number: phi,465
Translated headword: cups
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aeschines [in the speech]
Against Timarchus [writes]: "and
phimoi and other dicing utensils."[1] The so-called muzzle, into which [dice] were thrown, was a cup.
Diphilus says "pull the cup into the middle, so that one can throw in [the dice]."[2]
Greek Original:*fimoi/: *ai)sxi/nhs kata\ *tima/rxou: kai\ fimou\s kai\ kubeutika\ e(/tera o)/rgana. fimo\s de/ e)stin o( kalou/menos khmo/s, ei)s o(\n e)neba/llonto. *di/filos de/ fhsin: e(/lk' e)s me/son to\n fimo/n, w(s a)\n e)mba/lh|.
Notes:
Lightly abridged from Harpokration s.v.; see also
Photius phi210 Theodoridis and the other references there.
The headword is nominative plural of the noun in question (the first quotation has the accusative plural); see LSJ s.v. III for this sense of it.
[1]
Aeschines 1.59 (web address 1).
[2]
Diphilus fr. 76 Kock (now 77 Kassel-Austin).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@05:27:23.
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