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Headword:
*(roi/akes
Adler number: rho,273
Translated headword: rhoiakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "I bequeath to the child of Kallinikos [...] a pair of rhoiakes, a smooth carpet, a double-sided rug, a sofa cover, two head-rests of the best."[1]
Greek Original:*(roi/akes. di/dwmi de\ tw=| *kallini/kou paidi/w| r(oia/kwn zeu=gos, yilota/pida, a)mfi/tapon, peri/strwma, proskefa/laia du/o tw=n kalli/stwn.
Notes:
The unglossed headword, nominative plural, appears in the quotation in the genitive plural; but see next note.
[1] A clause -- here abbreviated and carelessly reproduced -- from the will of the Peripatetic scholarch Lykon (OCD4 Lyco):
Diogenes Laertius 5.69-74, at 72. By this stage in the sentence the beneficiary is the unnamed
wife of 'Kallinikos' (= Kallinos), and the first of the items she is to have is
*rodiakw=n zeu=gos, i.e. a pair of Rhodian [cups].
Keywords: biography; children; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; philosophy; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 April 2003@05:29:55.
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