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Headword:
*pente/ktenoi
Adler number: pi,974
Translated headword: five-scalloped
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] purpled-around. [sc. So called] because of [garments] which have [sc. rows of] five purple scallops woven around their borders.
Greek Original:*pente/ktenoi: peripo/rfuroi. dia\ to\ e)nufa/nqai peri\ ta\s w)/|as pe/nte kte/nas porfurou=s.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (pi580 Theodoridis), and cf.
Pollux 7.52 and
Hesychius pi1407. The nominative plural headword might be quoted from somewhere in its own right but more probably reflects an
accusative plural used by
Menander (fr.92 Kock, 94 K.-A., quoted by
Photius pi708.) See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.471, on
Antiphanes fr. 289.
For the etymology see LSJ s.v.
ktei/s 8b. On
w)/a or
w)/|a "border, fringe," see
omega 1.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 December 2009@09:10:30.
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