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Headword:
*qra=nos
Adler number: theta,456
Translated headword: bench
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] footstool. Hence also [sc. the term]
qrani/ths.[1]
Aristophanes [writes] in
Plutus: "instead of a bench, [to have] the head of only a broken pot." That is, [of only] a jug.[2]
*qra=nos: u(popo/dion. e)/nqen kai\ qrani/ths. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a)nti\ de\ qra/nous kerami/ou mo/nou kefalh\n kateago/tos. toute/sti sta/mnou.
Notes:
[1] One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches of a trireme. See
theta 454,
theta 455.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 545, with scholion. Actually,
Aristophanes' text reads
sta/mnou (a jug or bottle for racking off wine), which the Suda gives as the gloss, rather than
kerami/ou mo/nou. See web address 1.
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Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 7 January 2007@15:32:45.
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