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Headword:
Echinos
Adler number: epsilon,4012
Translated headword: vase, echinos, coney, sea-urchin; Echinos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A sort of vessel, into which were placed the documents relating to the lawsuits.
Demosthenes mentions this vessel, and so do
Aristotle and
Aristophanes.[1] There was also a polis [called
Echinos], which
Demosthenes mentions in the fifth Philippic.[2] [And an
echinos] is a particular sort of terrestrial creature, and a marine oyster.[3]
Echinos: angos ti, eis ho ta grammateia ta pros tas dikas etithento. mnêmoneuei de Dêmosthenês tou angous toutou, alla kai Aristotelês kai Aristophanês. ên de kai polis, hês mnêmoneuei Dêmosthenês en e# Philippikôn. esti de ti kai zôion chersaion, kai thalassion ostreon.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v.
For the primary sense given see also
epsilon 4013.
[1]
Demosthenes 49.65; ?
Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 53.2;
Aristophanes fr.263 Kock (274 Kassel-Austin).
[2] Actually
Demosthenes 9.34. It was on the northern shore of the Malian Gulf: Barrington Atlas map 55 grid D3. (And there was another in NW Greece: map 54 grid C4
[3] For the 'terrestrial creature' see
epsilon 4011. The 'marine oyster' would nowadays be called a sea-urchin (cf.
Plato,
Euthydemus 298D).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 April 2003@05:39:32.
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