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Headword: *qi/asos
Adler number: theta,378
Translated headword: thiasos, company, troop
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] band. Also [sc. attested is the related term] qiasw/ths ["thiasos-member"].
Aristophanes [writes]: "for the company of Muses is here, making music in the master's house."[1]
"He had a exceedingly large company of actors and dancers about him."[2]
Greek Original:
*qi/asos: xoro/s. kai\ *qiasw/ths. *)aristofa/nhs: e)pidhmei= ga\r qi/asos *mousw=n e)/ndon mela/qrwn tw=n desposu/nwn melopoiw=n. qi/aso/n te mi/mwn kai\ kordakistw=n peri\ au(to\n ma/la plh=qos ei)=xe.
Notes:
See also theta 379, theta 380, theta 381.
[1] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 40-42; cf. epsilon 3792.
[2] Aelian fr. 271 Domingo-Forasté (273 Hercher).
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; meter and music; stagecraft
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 25 February 2008@22:40:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-refs; another keyword; cosmetics) on 26 February 2008@06:05:02.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 2) on 6 September 2011@00:27:21.
David Whitehead on 3 January 2013@09:15:24.
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