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Headword:
Blautiois
Adler number: beta,325
Translated headword: slippers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] sandals.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "as happens to a drinking man when he wants to take a shit, I will use your manners just like [I would] your slippers."[2] Since those who drink are accustomed to use the shoes of others, if they are in urgent need of a [chamber-]pot. "Cauldrons"[3] [
lasana] are large pots, cooking [pots], in which meat is prepared for the council after sacrifices.[4]
Blautiois: sandaliois. Aristophanês: hoper pinôn anêr peponth', hotan cheseiêi, tois tropoisi tois soisin hôsper blautiois chrêsomai. epeidê eiôthasin hoi pinontes tois tôn allôn hupodêmasi chrêsthai, ei epeigointo pros lasanon. lasana de hoi chutropodes, ta mageireia, entha têi boulêi skeuazetai meta tas thusias krea.
Notes:
cf.
beta 324.
[1] Dative plural(s), determined by the quotation which follows.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 888-9 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia there; cf.
chi 220.
[3] Here the sense of
lasana obviously shifts.
[4] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 893: "once, before the war, the pots for the council were here"; cf.
lambda 133.
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Keywords: clothing; comedy; constitution; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 December 2001@13:01:34.
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