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Headword:
Achanê
Adler number: alpha,4671
Translated headword: achane
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is a Persian measure, just like the
artabe amongst Egyptians.[1] It measured 45 Attic medimnoi,[2] as
Aristotle attests.[3] But others say that it is a box, into which those preparing for pilgrimages used to put their provisions.
Achanê: metron esti Persikon, hôsper hê artabê para Aiguptiois. echôrei de medimnous Attikous me#, hôs marturei Aristotelês. hoi de phasin, hoti kistê estin, eis hên katetithento tous episitismous hoi epi tas theôrias stellomenoi.
Notes:
See generally LSJ s.v.
[1] From a scholium to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 108, where the headword occurs. For the
artabe see already
alpha 4020.
[2] For the medimnos see generally
mu 403.
[3]
Aristotle fr.566 Rose, from the
Constitution of the Orchomenians; it was evidently a Boiotian measure too.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2001@02:32:21.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added keywords) on 8 June 2001@05:10:02.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; restorative and other cosmetics) on 29 August 2002@03:45:17.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 9 May 2012@06:04:44.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@08:12:49.
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