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Headword: *fanostra/th
Adler number: phi,78
Translated headword: Phanostrate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. Grammatically] feminine.
Apollodorus in the [treatise] On the Courtesans at Athens says that her nickname was Lousegate, because she used to stand at the gate picking off lice.[1]
Greek Original:
*fanostra/th: qhluko/n. *)apollo/dwros e)n tw=| peri\ tw=n *)aqh/nhsin e(tairw=n tau/thn fhsi\n e)ponoma/zesqai *fqeiropu/lhn, e)peidh\ e)pi\ th=s pu/lhs e(stw=sa e)fqeiri/zeto.
Note:
[1] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 22.56, where Sinope (see under sigma 465) and Phanostrate are mentioned: web address 1. Besides Apollodorus (FGrH 244 F209) see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.586A (13.50 Kaibel).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; imagery; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@03:34:44.
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