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Headword:
Kêrukinas
Adler number: kappa,1540
Translated headword: heraldess
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a female [herald].[1]
And Alexandrians used to call khru/kinai the women who went into the courtyards and apartment-houses to gather up the soiled cloths (which they called fula/kia[2]) and carry them away to the sea.[3]
Greek Original:Kêrukaina: thêleia. kai Kêrukinas ekaloun Alexandreis gunaikas, haitines eis tas aulas pariousai kai tas sunoikias, eph' hôite sunageirein ta miasmata kai apopherein eis thalassan, haper ekaloun phulakia.
Notes:
[1] The primary headword is
khru/kaina (erroneous in the electronic text), which occurs in
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 713 (and the character herself at 834ff.).
[2] On these menstrual cloths, see
phi 823; cf.
upsilon 166.
[3] From
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 104 Zintzen; cf.
Photius,
Bibliotheca 338b25.
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; geography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2003@01:16:54.
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