[Meaning] a belt.[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "give him this lock of hair, unfit for a suppliant, and my girdle, not furnished with luxurious ornaments".[2] [He is] speaking of the belt, not the garment.[3]
*zw=ma: h( zw/nh. *sofoklh=s: do\s au)tw=| th=nd' a)liparh= tri/xa kai\ zw=ma tou)mo\n ou) xlidai=s h)skhme/non. th\n zw/nhn le/gwn, ou) to\ e)/nduma.
[1] The neuter headword
zw=ma is glossed with the feminine noun
zw/nh; both essentially mean the same.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 451-452 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there: see further under next note. (NB This is the text of line 451 already given at
alpha 1239, as well as in other lexicographers, but, as indicated there, it was disputed even in antiquity, and modern editors favour versions involving not
a)liparh=, "unfit for a suppliant", but
liparh=, "shining".)
[3] The LSJ entry s.v.
zw=ma (web address 2) cites a fragment of
Aeschylus (fr. 246 Nauck,
Hesychius Lexicon pi1213) where this word does serve as a synonym of "garment" (
e)/nduma); so the scholiast had to make clear that that was not the case here.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 17 August 2001@04:14:36.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 30 November 2012@06:39:17.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links) on 4 December 2012@01:51:48.
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