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Headword:
*qayi/nh|
Adler number: theta,75
Translated headword: sallow, yellow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "To act, like a sallow [Ino], as a summons-witness for a woman."[1]
Greek Original:*qayi/nh|: gunaiki\ klhteu/ein e)oikw\s qayi/nh|.
Notes:
The headword adjective, dative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] An approximation (the verb should be finite and interrogative: 'are you acting...?') of
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1413 (web address 1). For Ino see
iota 382. (The allusion here is to a lost play of
Euripides about her.) For summonsing in Athenian law cf.
kappa 1792,
kappa 1796.
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Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; law; mythology; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2008@06:28:56.
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