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Headword:
Anakaluptêria
Adler number: alpha,1888
Translated headword: unveiling-presents
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] gifts given to brides from both the husband and [his?] family friends [1], whenever [the brides] are first unveiled and viewed by the menfolk. These are also [called] wedding-presents.[2]
Greek Original:Anakaluptêria: dôra didomena tais numphais para te tou andros kai tôn oikeiôn philôn, hotan to prôton anakaluptôntai andrasin horathênai. esti de tauta kai epaulaia.
Notes:
Also in
Photius. Abridged from Harpokration s.v. He himself cites no primary source, but the likeliest one is
Lysias' lost speech
On the unveiling-presents; see pp. 317-318 in Carey's OCT, with 2 fragments.
[1] Family
and friends in Harpok.
[2] i.e.
epaulia (Toup's emendation, in Harpok., of the transmitted
epaulaia). Harpok. adds "these are what we call
qew/rhtra".
Reference:
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1985) 221
Keywords: children; clothing; daily life; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; rhetoric; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 October 2000@11:31:04.
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