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Headword:
Histiorraphos
Adler number: iota,691
Translated headword: sail-patcher
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] knavish. From a metaphor of those who stitch rigging. And the Egyptians are linen-makers.
Aristophanes [writes]: "a sail-mender almost [took] this woman".
Greek Original:Histiorraphos: panourgos. apo metaphoras tôn ta armena rhaptontôn. kai hoi Aiguptioi de linopoioi eisin. Aristophanês: oligou tautên histiorraphos.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 April 2006@16:29:41.
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