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Headword:
*pentesuri/ggw|
cu/lw|
Adler number: pi,976
Translated headword: in a five-tubed timber
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the stocks. For it has five apertures, through which the feet and the hands and the neck are inserted.
Greek Original:*pentesuri/ggw| cu/lw|: th=| podoka/kh|. pe/nte ga\r o)pa\s e)/xei, di' w(=n oi( po/des kai\ ai( xei=res kai\ o( tra/xhlos e)mba/llontai.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 1049 (web address 1), with explanation from the
scholia there; cf. generally
pi 1847,
pi 1848.
For the rare adjective 'five-tubed' cf. Polyeuktos on the paralysed Speusippos in
Aristotle,
Rhetoric 1411a22: fortune had bound him 'in a five-tubed disease'.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; imagery; law; medicine; rhetoric; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 February 2004@06:40:20.
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