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Headword:
*stiba/des
*formi/wnos
Adler number: sigma,1097
Translated headword: Phormion's mats
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In reference to things that are cheap. Phormion was a general [strategos]. Mats, since soldiers sleep on the ground; he was a frugal man and one who loved the fighting life.
Also [sc. attested is the singular] sti/bas, a bed on the ground, a dinner-couch [made] from young tree-shoots;[2] also the branches of trees.
"When they arrived at dinner they reclined on mats, on barbarian carpets."[3]
Greek Original:*stiba/des *formi/wnos: e)pi\ tw=n eu)telw=n. strathgo\s de\ h)=n o( *formi/wn. stiba/des de/, e)pei\ oi( stratiw=tai xameunou=si: lito\s de\ h)=n kai\ polemiko/s. kai\ *stiba/s, xamaikoi/tion, a)kou/biton a)po\ r(a/bdwn: kai\ oi( tw=n de/ndrwn a)kremo/nes. w(s de\ parh=lqon e)pi\ to\ dei=pnon, katekli/nonto me\n e)pi\ stiba/sin, e)pi\ tapi/dwn barbarikw=n.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 347, where the elements of the headword phrase occur (
stiba/das a(/s e)/laxe *formi/wn).
[2] The noun
a)kkou/biton with a double-kappa (from Latin
accumbo) is 'a seat or couch to recline on at table'. See E.A.
Sophocles,
Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods s.v., and
alpha 3178 with n.1 there.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable, but perhaps a paraphrase of, or otherwise connected with,
Xenophon,
Anabasis 6.1.4:
e)n sti/basin e)dei/pnoun is a manuscript variant there of the
e)n ski/mposin e)dei/pnoun ("on pallets") favoured by modern editors, and the
scholia comment with material very like the present entry,
xamakoi/tion a)po\ r(a/bdwn kai\ de/ndrwn.
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 23 March 2003@16:09:30.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 March 2003@03:40:28.
David Whitehead (expanded n.3; more keywords; tweaks) on 19 August 2011@11:13:50.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 9 April 2022@00:47:04.
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