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Headword:
*krema/qra
Adler number: kappa,2370
Translated headword: hanger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A particular kind of device up in the air, in which they put superfluous relishes. It has the name hanger because of its always being hung up in the air.
Aristophanes introduces Socrates sitting on a hanger to raise a laugh, as [if he were] a stargazer.
*krema/qra: mete/wro/n ti kataskeu/asma, e)n w(=| e)ti/qesan ta\ peritteu/onta o)/ya. krema/qra de\ ei)/rhtai dia\ to\ a)ei\ kremame/nhn mete/wron ei)=nai. ei)sa/gei de\ *)aristofa/nhs to\n *swkra/thn e)pi\ krema/qras kaqh/menon geloi/ou xa/rin, w(s metewrole/sxhn.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 218 (web address 1).
'It seems most likely that Socrates is sitting comfortably in a sling formed by attaching a rope from each corner of a four-cornered mat to the hook on the end of a rope. To that extent we can speak of him as sitting in a basket' (Dover ad loc.).
For this headword cf. under
epsilon 1898.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; food; science and technology; stagecraft
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 December 2008@10:18:16.
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