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Headword:
*soro/s
Adler number: sigma,790
Translated headword: coffin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] tomb, receptacle.[1]
"You there, you blowhard and pussy-rubber, you desire and seem to long for a timely coffin."[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
sorophgo/s ['coffin-maker'].
Aristophanes [writes]: "or shall I describe his madness to the coffin-makers?"[3] [Meaning] to those who make the coffins for the dead. That is, he will receive no other cure than death; and it [is] necessary for him to prepare things suitable for his burial.
*soro/s: mnh=ma, qh/kh. w)= ou(=tos, tufedane\ kai\ xoiro/qliy, poqei=s e)ra=n t' e)/oikas w(rai/as sorou=. kai\ *sorophgo/s. *)aristofa/nhs: h)\ toi=s sorophgoi=s th\n mani/an au)tou= fra/sw; toi=s ta\s sorou\s tw=n a)poqnhsko/ntwn poiou=si. tou/testin a)/llhn i)/asin ou)x e(/cei h)\ to\n qa/naton: kai\ de/on au)tw=| pro\s th\n tafh\n ta\ e)pith/deia kataskeua/zein.
Notes:
[1] =
Hesychius sigma1346,
Synagoge sigma160,
Photius sigma420 Theodoridis. The headword is taken (Latte, Theodoridis) to be quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 23.91, where it occurs in this form (nominative singular). See also the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus (
Wealth) 277, where it occurs in the dative.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1364-5 (here with minor errors); in this passage the headword occurs in the genitive singular. See again at
sigma 1263,
tau 1209,
chi 599.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 846, with comments from the
scholia thereto. In this passage the nominative singular secondary lemma occurs in the dative plural.
Translated by: William Hutton on 15 March 2014@22:09:53.
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