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Headword:
Engônios
trapeza
Adler number: epsilon,157
Translated headword: right-angled table
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A table] which is not round and not too circular. "In Maecenas' dining-room there was a right-angled table below the couch, very great in size and incomparable in beauty; and as was likely different men praised it in different ways. But Iortios not being able to express the marvel for himself, when silence fell, [said], 'But, my dear drinking-companions, there is something you fail to notice: it is round and very circular.' So at such sheer flattery, as was likely, laughter broke out.
Plutarch [sc. says this]."[1]
Greek Original:Engônios trapeza: hê mê strongulê kai mê agan peripherês. en tôi sundeipnôi tôi tou Maikêna trapeza engônios ên hupo têi klisiai, to megethos megistê kai kallos amachos: kai hoia eikos epêinoun alloi allôs autên. ho de Iortios ouk echôn hoti par' heautou terateusasthai, sigês genomenês, ekeino de ouk ennoeite, ô philoi sumpotai, hôs strongulê esti kai agan peripherês. epi toinun têi akratôi kolakeiai, hôs to eikos, gelôs katerragê. Ploutarchos.
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Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; food; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 June 2006@01:02:48.
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