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Headword: Anaphoron
Adler number: alpha,2126
Translated headword: yoke
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] timber concave on both sides, on which workers hang their burdens and weigh them. Aristophanes [writes]: "you, boy, bring the yoke."[1] Alternatively one could describe it as a)mfi/kurton ["convex on both sides"], which [is] also true.[2]
Greek Original:
Anaphoron: xulon amphikoilon, en hôi ta phortia exartêsantes hoi ergatai bastazousin. Aristophanês: phere su tanaphoron ho pais. ê amphikurton grapteon, hoper kai alêthes.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 833 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] See already alpha 1738.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 26 October 2000@15:59:14.
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David Whitehead (modified translation; cosmetics) on 27 October 2000@03:34:10.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 2 August 2002@04:47:03.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 29 February 2012@05:31:29.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note and link) on 26 September 2013@00:23:40.
David Whitehead on 9 July 2015@10:37:18.
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