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Headword:
*kakohqe/stata
Adler number: kappa,159
Translated headword: most ill-natured
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is said of keys.
Aristophanes in
Thesmophoriazusae [writes] "for husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with three teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [
Euripides] has taught them [to have seals] of worm-eaten wood".[1]
*kakohqe/stata: e)pi\ kleidi/wn le/getai. *)aristofa/nhs *qesmoforiazou/sais: oi( ga\r a)/ndres h)/dh kleidi/a forou=si krupta/, kakohqe/stata, *lakwnika\ a)/tta, trei=s e)/xonta gomfi/ous. pro\ tou= me\n ou)=n h)=n a)ll' u(poi=cai th\n qu/ran poihsame/naisi daktu/lion triwbo/lou. nu=n d' ou(=tos au)tou\s e)di/dace qriphde/stata.
Note:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 421-7 (slightly abridged: see web address 1). For the Lakonian key see further under
lambda 64.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 July 2001@08:17:21.
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