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Headword:
Kakoêthestata
Adler number: kappa,159
Translated headword: most ill-natured
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is said of keys.
Aristophanes in
Thesmophoriazusae [writes] "for husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with three teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [
Euripides] has taught them [to have seals] of worm-eaten wood".[1]
Kakoêthestata: epi kleidiôn legetai. Aristophanês Thesmophoriazousais: hoi gar andres êdê kleidia phorousi krupta, kakoêthestata, Lakônika atta, treis echonta gomphious. pro tou men oun ên all' hupoixai tên thuran poiêsamenaisi daktulion triôbolou. nun d' houtos autous edidaxe thripêdestata.
Note:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 421-7 (slightly abridged: see web address 1). For the Lakonian key see further under
lambda 64.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 July 2001@08:17:21.
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