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Headword:
Diphthera
Adler number: delta,1290
Translated headword: leather
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] shepherd's wrap [made] out of hides.[1]
[Note] that they call "pads" the coverings [made] from leather on oar handles that they use on triremes, in the hole through which the oar handle was placed; for Thorykion wrote his plans on pieces of leather and sent them to the enemies in Laconia.[2]
Greek Original:Diphthera: poimenikon peribolaion ek dermatôn. hoti askômata legontai ta en tais kôpais skepastêria ek dermatos, hois chrôntai en tais triêresi, kath' ho trêma hê kôpê balletai: eis diphtheras gar tas dianoias heautou grapsas ho Thôrakiôn epempe tois polemiois en têi Lakônikêi.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 72 (see web address 1 for the
Clouds passage), where the accusative case of the headword occurs.
[2] A gloss (lacking, Adler reports, in mss TFV) which reproduces the information in
alpha 4183.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 10 June 2005@05:23:26.
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