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Headword:
Chitôn
Adler number: chi,320
Translated headword: chiton, tunic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A man's garment.
"And a sleeved short tunic [xitwni/skos xeiridwto/s], such as befits a slave boy."[1]
A chiton, therefore, is a lightweight garment, an undershirt; [the word is derived] from the fact that it flows [e)gxei=sqai] on the limbs.[2]
"Wearing a chiton of fleecy wool underneath; and even if he deceived [them] saying these things, he would pop up around the fish." That is, he would appear around the fish-shops. That is, he would be found cutting.[3]
Interpretation of a dream: a ripped chiton ripped away a weight of worries."[4]
Greek Original:Chitôn: himation andrikon. kai chitôniskos cheiridôtos, hoios prepei doulôi paidi. Chitôn oun esti lepton himation, hupokamison: para to encheisthai tois melesi. chitôna g' echôn oulôn eriôn hupenerthen. kan tauta legôn exapatêsêi, peri tous ichthuas anekupse. toutestin anaphainetai peri ta ichthuopôlia. toutesti gluphôn heurisketai. lusis oneirou: chitôn rhageis errêxe phrontidôn baros.
Notes:
[1]
Procopius,
Secret History 9.9.
[2] This gloss and etymology appear in the A and D
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 2.42 (where the headword occurs in the accusative,
xitw=na: web address 1 below). See also
chi 335.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1067-1068 (web address 2); what follows in the entry is from the
scholia to line 1068.
[4] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 March 2008@00:34:22.
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