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Headword:
*tou)/strakon
Adler number: tau,838
Translated headword: the pot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*tou)/strakon, with crasis, means the same as]
to\ o)/strakon.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and place the pot in front of the door." [These are] the so-called
ardania.
*tou)/strakon: to\ o)/strakon. *)aristofa/nhs: kai\ para/qou tou)/strakon pro\ th=s qu/ras. ta\ kalou/mena a)rda/nia.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 1033, with fuller
scholia.
For this specific sense of
ostrakon (cf.
omicron 719) -- a jug placed in front of the door of a house to show that a death has occurred -- see
Pollux 8.66, and cf.
alpha 3804.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2013@06:37:16.
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