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Headword: Ipnia
Adler number: iota,550
Translated headword: soot
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the offscourings of the oven [i)pno/s], the so-called furnace [furnus]. Or the flammable materials suitable for the stove. Callimachus calls the dung of animals [i)/pnia]: "he/she took away together the rubbish and the ashes from the oven."[1]
Or i)pno/s, a cook-shop, or a torch. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "the ipnos became suddenly ivory."[2]
Also [sc. attested are] i)pnoi/, [meaning] lamps, lanterns, portable lights.[3]
Greek Original:
Ipnia: ta apokatharmata tou ipnou, tou legomenou phournou. ê ta pros tên kaminon epitêdeia kausima. legei de tên kopron tôn zôiôn Kallimachos: sun d' amudis phoruton te kai ipnia lumat' aeiren. ê Ipnos, to mageireion, hê kapnodokê, ê ho phanos. Aristophanês Ploutôi: ho d' ipnos gegon' exapinês elephantinos. kai Ipnoi, hoi lamptêres, hoi phanoi, hoi luchnoi.
Notes:
The Greek headword is (neuter) plural.
[1] From the scholia on Aristophanes, Wasps 836, where an oven is mentioned (web address 1). 'Callimachus' = Hecale fr. 295; cf. alpha 636, phi 623.
[2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 815 (web address 2), with scholion. See also iota 552.
[3] From the scholia on Aristophanes, Peace 841 (web address 3).
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 July 2006@23:18:05.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 July 2006@05:33:25.
David Whitehead (another note; tweaking) on 14 January 2013@06:42:22.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links) on 19 January 2013@00:04:29.
David Whitehead on 27 April 2016@04:02:37.

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