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Headword:
Kômên
Adler number: kappa,2259
Translated headword: village
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Most people [use the term to mean] confined area or, generally, neighborhood, but others say that the demes within the city are called villages. Also [that] the demesmen within the city and, generally, those who live in the same district and part of the city [are called]
kwmh=tai ["villagers"].
Aristophanes [uses the term] this way.[1]
Thucydides, also, speaks of demes as "villages" in [book] 1: "[
Sparta] was inhabited by villages in the ancient manner."[2]
Kômên: hoi pleistoi ton stenôpon kai tên hoion geitniasin, hoi de tous en têi polei dêmous kômas phasi prosagoreuesthai. kai kômêtas, tous dêmotas en têi polei kai hoion en têi autêi taxei kai moirai tês poleôs oikountas. houtôs Aristophanês. eirêke de kai Thoukudidês kômas tous dêmous en a#: kata kômas de tôi palaiôi tropôi oikêtheisa.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1310 Theodoridis (q.v. for other references).
The headword, evidently quoted from somewhere, is the accusative case of the feminine noun
kw/mh (
kappa 2258). See also
kappa 2260,
kappa 2261,
kappa 2262,
kappa 2263.
[1] That is,
Aristophanes uses
kwmh/ths ("villager") in this way:
Clouds 965 (web address 1); cf.
Lysistrata 5; the headword itself is not attested in
Aristophanes.
[2] An approximation of
Thucydides 1.10.2 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: Patrick Manuello on 14 June 2009@07:22:22.
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