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Headword:
Alabastothêkas
Adler number: alpha,1050
Translated headword: perfume-bottle boxes, scent-bottle boxes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes calls boxes of scent-bottles [this].[1] In common parlance they call them
murothekai ["unguent-boxes"].
Alabastoi are flasks of which one cannot take hold because of [their] smoothness.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "into the scent-bottle one ladle of peace". As if he was saying one spoonful.[3]
Greek Original:Alabastothêkas: tas thêkas tôn alabastôn Dêmosthenês legei. en têi sunêtheiai murothêkas kalousin. alabastoi de eisi lêkuthoi, hôn ouk esti labesthai dia leiotêta. Aristophanês: es ton alabaston kuathon eirênês hena. hôsei elege kochliarion hen.
Notes:
The first part of this entry comes from Harpokration s.v., but
Photius and the Suda convert his nominative plural headword into an accusative plural.
[1]
Demosthenes 19.237 (web address 1).
[2] See
alpha 1051.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1053 (web address 2), with scholion. The "ladle" (kuathos,
kappa 2574) was a standard Attic measure.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: art history; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 July 2000@18:19:41.
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