[Meaning] a hair-removal place, or a fireplace.
Aristophanes [writes]: "I was tuned with knuckles in the singeing-pits."[1] ['I was tuned'] meaning I was educated. From music.[2]
Eustra: to madistêrion, ê hê phlogistra. Aristophanês: en taisin eustrais kondulois hêrmottomên. anti tou epaideuomên. apo tês mousikês.
The headword (nominative singular feminine) refers to a pit in which the bristles were removed from swine (
post mortem) by singeing. Compare
Hesychius epsilon7216;
Etymologicum Magnum 398.31.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 1236 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia -- aimed mainly at explaining the metaphorical usage of
h(rmotto/mhn (literally "I was fitted"); cf.
eta 534. In this quotation the headword appears in the dative plural.
[2] That is, the metaphor is drawn from musical terminology.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 11 February 2008@11:16:36.
David Whitehead (corrected ref and link; x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics) on 12 February 2008@03:14:23.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 15 November 2012@04:43:55.
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