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Headword:
Pausikapê
Adler number: pi,821
Translated headword: gulp-stopper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A contraption on wheels, through which they used to insert the neck both of harnessed animals, so that they could not eat, and of human beings,[1] to make it impossible for them to reach the mouth with their hands.
Cessation [pausis] is inheritance, but lexis [is] apportioning, and allotment a part [leading] to a better lexis. "He did not hesitate to allot with deifying authority".[2]
Greek Original:Pausikapê: mêchanêma trochois empheres, di' hou ton trachêlon dieiron kai tôn hupozugiôn, hôste mê esthiein, kai tôn anthrôpôn, hôs mê dunasthai tas cheiras tôi stomati prosagein. hoti pausis esti klêronomia, lêxis de meris, hê de apoklêrôsis meros eis ameinona lêxin. apoklêrôsai theopoiôi phrontidi ouden ôknêse.
Notes:
The first paragraph here =
Photius pi498 Theodoridis. The headword is poorly attested outside lexicography, but see
Aristophanes fr.302 Kock (314 K.-A.).
[1] i.e. slaves.
[2] From
lambda 465, q.v., cf.
alpha 3356.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 February 2004@10:34:23.
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