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Headword:
Druphaktoi
Adler number: delta,1554
Translated headword: railings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] wooden defences,[1] the cross-barriers, or the surrounding fences, or latticed gates, enclosures, the ones now called "boarded", the projecting timbers of the buildings.[2]
"After he had collected four hundred merchant-ships, and attached railings to them all around [...]."[3]
Greek Original:Druphaktoi: xulinoi thôrakes, ta diaphragmata, ê ta periteichismata, ê kinklides, periphragmata, ta nun tablôta kaloumena, ta tôn oikodomêmatôn exechonta xula. ho de tetrakosias phortidas nêas suschôn, druphaktous te tautais pêxamenos en kuklôi.
Notes:
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wasps 386: an anapaestic trimeter where Philocleon is giving instruction in a solemn form to be buried under the
dru/faktoi, that is the wooden railings used in a lawcourt to separate the spectators from the jury. The joke rests on the comic absurdity of being buried in a lawcourt. For the headword cf. under
delta 1541.
[2] For this final element of the glossing cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 675.
[3] Quotation from an unidentifiable historical source, probably via the
Excerpta Constantiniana.
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 12 April 2005@16:51:43.
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