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Headword:
*)askw/mata
Adler number: alpha,4183
Translated headword: oar-pads
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the coverings of leather on oar handles, which they use on triremes, in the hole through which the oar handle was placed. For Thorykion wrote his plans on pieces of leather and sent them to the enemies in Laconia.
Greek Original:*)askw/mata: ta\ e)n tai=s kw/pais skepasth/ria e)k de/rmatos, oi(=s xrw=ntai e)n tai=s trih/resi, kaq' o(\ trh=ma h( kw/ph ba/lletai. ei)s difqe/ras ga\r ta\s dianoi/as ta\s e(autou= gra/yas o( *qwruki/wn e)/pempe toi=s polemi/ois e)n th=| *lakwnikh=|.
Notes:
This gloss is taken from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 364, where the headword -- a neuter plural -- appears (web address 1 below); again under
delta 1290.
Thorykion has been previously mentioned as a "wicked tax-collector"; but see under
theta 444.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@23:15:51.
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