*qesmofo/ria: o)/noma e(orth=s. w(/sper e)n qesmofori/oisi nhsteu/omen a)\n quhlw=n. *)aristofa/nhs.
cf. generally
theta 271,
theta 272.
[1] A women's festival in honour of Demeter, celebrated (in
Athens and elsewhere) in the autumn. See OCD(4) s.v. and more fully e.g. H.W. Parke,
Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 82-88, 158-160.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1519-20 -- but here faulty in transmission:
w(/sper e)n should be
w(/sperei/ and, more crucially, the particle
a)/n should be the preposition
a)/neu, "without" (see the tr. above, and web address 1).
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