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Headword:
*deka/poun
skia/n
Adler number: delta,178
Translated headword: ten-foot shadow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "but you'll take care, whenever the shadow [is] ten feet [long], to go off well-oiled[1] to dinner."[2] He is speaking of a sun-dial. That is, whenever the shadow of the sun is ten feet long, i.e. when it is evening.
Greek Original:*deka/poun skia/n: *)aristofa/nhs: soi\ de\ melh/sei, o(/tan h)=| deka/poun to\ stoixei=on, liparw=s xwrei=n e)s dei=pnon. peri\ h(liotropi/ou fhsi/. toute/sti tou= h(li/ou h( skia\ o(/tan h)=| de/ka podw=n, h)/goun o(/te gi/netai o)yino/n.
Notes:
For the headword phrase see already
delta 177; nominative case there, accusative here.
[1] SOL prints
liparw=s following Adler; LSJ prints
liparw=| (Bentley's emendation for
-rw=s); Perseus prints
liparo\n (from the Greek text edited by Hall and Geldart).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 651-2 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. For
o)yino/n, see
omicron 1081.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 December 2003@15:28:06.
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