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Headword:
*periske/lia
Adler number: pi,1283
Translated headword: leggings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: What Romans used to wear round their legs. They were saffron-dyed.[1] "[They] putting leggings all the way to their feet".[2]
Greek Original:*periske/lia: a(\ e)fo/roun oi( *(rwmai=oi peri\ ta\ ske/lh. h)=san de\ krokobafh=. perikataqe/menoi de\ periske/lia toi=s au)toi=s posi/.
Notes:
See already
pi 1282.
[1] Or: there were saffron-dyed ones.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [Thanks to Catharine Roth for the suggestion of how to translate
toi=s au)toi=s posi/.]
Keywords: clothing; definition; geography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 March 2010@03:22:18.
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