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Headword:
Batracheion
Adler number: beta,189
Translated headword: frog-green
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of color. From this also [comes] the frog-green coat. They used to color their faces with frog-green before masks were invented.[1] Also [sc. attested is] 'frog-green [coat]', a type of brightly-colored clothing, similar to the name of the [frog?] that has this color.[2]
Also [sc attested is the phrase] 'frog-green fate'.[3]
Greek Original:Batracheion: eidos chrômatos. apo toutou kai batrachis himation. echrionto de tôi batracheiôi ta prosôpa prin epinoêthênai ta prosôpeia. kai Batrachis, eidos esthêtos anthinês, homoion tôi onomati echousês to chrôma. kai Batracheios moira.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 522, where the headword occurs; cf.
mu 20.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 1406, where the word occurs.
[3] This (proverbial?) phrase is not otherwise attested.
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 20 June 2002@16:02:08.
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