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Headword:
Agoras
hôran
Adler number: alpha,306
Translated headword: market's hour, market's time
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning the hour/time] not for selling things, but for the other transactions that go on in the marketplace at dawn, or indeed before the marketplace gets full.[1]
Pherekrates [writes]: "always to drink and get drunk before the marketplace gets full".[2]
Greek Original:Agoras hôran: ou tôn pôloumenôn, alla tôn allôn praxeôn tôn kat' agoran heôthen, ê kai prin agoran peplêthenai. Pherekratês: pinein aei kai methuein prin agoran peplêthenai.
Notes:
Same entry, but slightly fuller, in
Photius (Lexicon alpha238 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; see further, next note.
[1] Theodoridis (above) prints Croenert's
h(=ke for
h)\ kai/ and thereby sees in this entry
two fragments of
Pherekrates (cf. next note) -- this first one being "he came at dawn before the marketplace gets full".
[2]
Pherekrates fr. 29 Kock, now 34 K.-A. -- an extract which, as can readily be seen, connects with the glossing material rather than with the (proverbial?) phrase glossed. See also fr. 178 K.-A.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; trade and manufacture
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2000@00:49:20.
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