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Headword: Gerra
Adler number: gamma,178
Translated headword: screens
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Strictly speaking the screens are Persian artefacts;[1] loosely speaking "screen" was the word for any sort of covering, whether of hide or of some other material. Hence Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon calls the coverings and hangings of the [market-]booths "screens" and says that they were burned.[2] He would likewise call the fences of the booths "screens".
Greek Original:
Gerra: Persika men estin hopla kuriôs ta gerra: katachrêstikôs de kai hapan skepasma, eite dermatinon eite allês tinos hulês, gerron elegeto. dio kai Dêmosthenês ta tôn skênôn skepasmata kai parakalummata en tôi huper Ktêsiphôntos gerra kalôn empiprasthai legei. legoit' an homoiôs gerra kai ta tôn skênôn periphragmata.
Notes:
Abridged and adapted from Harpokration s.v., who besides Herodotus and Demosthenes (below) cites [Demosthenes] 59.90.
See also gamma 177, gamma 205.
[1] See Herodotus 7.61.1.
[2] Demosthenes 18.169.
Keywords: daily life; definition; geography; historiography; history; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 October 2000@08:13:19.
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