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Headword:
*)/askantos
Adler number: alpha,4161
Translated headword: pallet
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a small couch, a beggarly little bed.[1]
Alternatively
a)ska/nths ["pallet"], a couch which does not have a mattress; for a
ka/nhs ["mattress"] [is] a rush mat.[2]
Or[3] a low bed [
ski/mpous], or a certain type of seat, though others [call it] a
kra/bbaton ["couch"].[4]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "take your pallet and come out."[5]
*)/askantos: h( mikra\ kli/nh, to\ ptwxo\n klini/dion. h)\ *)aska/nths, kli/nh mh\ e)/xousa ka/nhta: ka/nhs de\ o( yi/aqos. h)\ o( ski/mpous, h)\ di/frou ti ei)=dos, oi( de\ to\n kra/bbaton. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: e)/cei to\n a)ska/nthn labw/n.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in
Hesychius and other lexica (including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon) -- though glossing
a)ska/nths, not the Suda's
a)/skantos (which occurs only here).
[2] cf.
kappa 307.
[3] From the
scholia to a line of
Aristophanes about to be quoted; see note below.
[4] For this variant cf.
Moeris 190.23; and see generally
sigma 607.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 634 (web address 1).
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@20:21:22.
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