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Headword: Trochos
Adler number: tau,1073
Translated headword: wheel
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The wheel was a wooden thing on which slaves were tied as punishment.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "if any would-be general does not assist, or any slave ready to desert, may he be twisted on the wheel and whipped".[2]
Greek Original:
Trochos: xulinon ti ên ho trochos, en hôi desmoumenoi hoi oiketai ekolazonto. Aristophanês: ei tis stratêgein boulomenos mê xullabêi, ê doulos automolein pareskeuasmenos, epi tou trochou helkoito mastigoumenos.
Notes:
See also tau 1072, where the same two passages of Aristophanes are cited.
[1] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 875.
[2] Aristophanes Peace 450-2.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2000@09:02:02.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 14 November 2004@16:30:14.
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