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Headword:
*qo/los
Adler number: theta,402
Translated headword: Tholos, Round-House, Rotunda
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A round building [sc. in
Athens], in which the prytaneis used to dine. In some special sense it was named the prytaneion, since it was the storehouse [
tamiei=on] of wheat [
purw=n].
*qo/los: oi)=kos periferh/s, e)n w(=| oi( pruta/neis ei(stiw=nto. prutanei=on de/ ti i)di/ws w)no/mastai, e)pei\ purw=n h)=n tamiei=on.
Notes:
Virtually the same entry in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon (probably generated by the mention of the Tholos in
Plato,
Apology 32D) and in
Photius'
Lexicon. For the Tholos see also
theta 403.
Although
Athens' prytaneis (
pi 3000) did dine in the Tholos, the Tholos and the Prytaneion (equated again at
pi 2999) were two different structures, and the etymology offered here for the latter is highly dubious.
J.M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1986) 94-95
S.G. Miller, The Prytaneion (Berkeley 1978) 38-66
Keywords: agriculture; architecture; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; history; law; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 June 2003@11:07:04.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented headword; modified translation; expanded notes; added bibliography) on 8 June 2003@11:21:23.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 4 January 2013@05:01:56.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword) on 28 April 2016@04:58:26.
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