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Headword:
Toustrakon
Adler number: tau,838
Translated headword: the pot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*tou)/strakon, with crasis, means the same as]
to\ o)/strakon.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and place the pot in front of the door." [These are] the so-called
ardania.
Greek Original:Toustrakon: to ostrakon. Aristophanês: kai parathou toustrakon pro tês thuras. ta kaloumena ardania.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 1033, with fuller
scholia.
For this specific sense of
ostrakon (cf.
omicron 719) -- a jug placed in front of the door of a house to show that a death has occurred -- see
Pollux 8.66, and cf.
alpha 3804.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2013@06:37:16.
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