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Headword: Kardopos
Adler number: kappa,372
Translated headword: kneading-trough
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a mortar of [= for] wheat-meal.[1]
A trough, in which they used to knead the loaves. Or a small tub, in which [it was] customary to knead and mix up the barley-groats. ka/rdopos is feminine. Aristophanes [writes]: "you call kardopos masculine, just like [sc. you do] Kleonymos". Some call [it] masculine; for he was woman-like.[2]
Greek Original:
Kardopos: hê maktra tou aleurou. magis, en hêi tous artous ematton. ê skaphidion, en hôi anamattein kai anaphuran ethos ta alphita. thêlukôs hê kardopos. Aristophanês. tên kardopon arsenikôs kaleis, hôsper Kleônumon. arsenikôs kalousi tines: gunaikôdês gar ên.
Notes:
[1] Similar glosses in other lexica and scholia.
[2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 669 and 673-4; both passages of Aristophanes are at web address 1 below. For Kleonymos see kappa 1736.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 18 March 2008@14:13:56.
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David Whitehead (modifications to tr; augmented and modified notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 19 March 2008@04:58:37.
Jennifer Benedict (added link) on 19 March 2008@14:34:12.
David Whitehead (typo) on 20 March 2008@04:12:30.
David Whitehead on 27 January 2013@08:57:52.
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