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Headword:
Oxubaphon
Adler number: omicron,421
Translated headword: vinegar-saucer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the [kind] containing vinegar.
But a bowl[1] is larger than a vinegar-saucer.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "grab hence a vinegar-saucer or a bowl and protect [your eyes]".[2]
[Note] that they say that
Diocles the Athenian[3] invented music [made] with saucers, with earthenware pots, which he used to strike with a wooden stick.[4]
Oxubaphon: to dechomenon to oxos. meizon de to trublion tou oxubaphou. Aristophanês Ornisin: oxubaphon enteutheni prosthou labôn ê trublion. hoti phasi Dioklea ton Athênaion heurein tên en tois oxubaphois harmonian, en ostrakinois angeiois, haper ekrouen en xuliphiôi.
Notes:
A word common in comedy; apart from the verse quoted here, see for example
Aristophanes fr.75 K.-A. (70 Kock); also
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.494B-E [11.87 Kaibel], and
Pollux 6.85 and 10.86. In the Suda, see also
pi 712.
The headword is briefly glossed in
Photius (omicron375 Theodoridis),
Hesychius omicron943 and ps.-
Zonaras;
Hesychius also uses it as a gloss/synonym of
a)/lir, ba/fion, ga/bena, e)mbafion, kh/qeia, o)ci/des, paroyi/s and
tru/blion.
[1] trublion:
tau 1089.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 361 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3] See
delta 1155 and the notes there.
[4] cf.
alpha 3977,
delta 1155,
xi 98.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; food; geography; meter and music; poetry; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 19 May 2007@17:42:20.
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