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Headword:
Charax
Adler number: chi,96
Translated headword: palisade; stake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the masculine [it means] an army camp.[1]
"The Greeks consider this to be the best stake, one which has the most and the largest projections around its base; whereas amongst Romans stakes have two or three 'wings'."[2]
'Demostratus' in Naturalized Citizen [writes]: "they brought the palisade up to the headland."[3]
But [sc. also attested] in the feminine, [meaning] the [stake] of a vine. "The stake deceived the vine."[4]
Greek Original:Charax: arsenikôs to stratopedon. hoti hoi Hellênes touton hêgountai charaka ariston, hos an echêi pleistas ekphuseis kai megalas perix tou premnou: para de Rhômaiois duo keraias ê treis echousin hoi charakes. Dêmostratos Dêmopoiêta: hoi men prosepheron ton charaka pros tên akran. thêlukôs de, ho tês ampelou. exêpatêsen hê charax tên ampelon.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Polybius 18.18.6; again at
pi 2243.
[3]
Timostratus [sic] fr. 2 Kock and K.-A. The Suda and other lexica (for which see below) have "Demostratus", but no such author is attested in Greek literature; Meineke's emendation to "
Timostratus" is standard, and the error was evidently generated by the play's title (again a standard emendation, from the transmitted
*Dhmopoi/hta). This part of the entry =
Etymologicum Genuinum; see also ps.-
Zonaras 1841,
Etymologicum Magnum 806.42.
[4]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1291 (web address 1 below); cf.
chi 97,
epsilon 1740, and
eta 672.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2008@10:31:01.
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