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Headword:
Hamaxourgoi
Adler number: alpha,1490
Translated headword: cartwrights, wagon-makers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Cartwrights are what they call a)griophgoi/ ["joiners of wild sc. timber"]. The a)griophgoi/ [are] a type of builders, who construct wagons and are workers of all wild timbers.
Greek Original:Hamaxourgoi. hamaxourgous legousi tous agriopêgous. eidos de hoi agriopêgoi tektonôn, hoi tas hamaxas kataskeuazousi kai pantôn tôn agriôn xulôn eisin ergatai.
Notes:
The word cartwright occurs (in the singular) at
Aristophanes,
Knights 464; this material is from the
scholia on the line.
For the distinction between wild and cultivated trees see e.g.
Herodotus 4.21.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 June 2000@10:35:01.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 February 2001@08:24:54.
David Whitehead (another keyword; betacode and other cosmetics) on 12 February 2012@06:11:34.
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