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Headword: Auleios
Adler number: alpha,4443
Translated headword: courtyard [door]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the first door of the house [sc. as one enters] from the street.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] 'courtyard doors.' And for the singular they say auleion as we [do]. Aristophanes in Danaids [writes]: "...to bury the head of a hedgehog by the hinge of the courtyard [door]."[2]
But aulion and proaulion [forecourt] [are] neuter.
Greek Original:
Auleios: hê apo tês hodou prôtê thura tês oikias. Auleious thuras. kai henikon auleion legousin hôs hêmeis. Aristophanês Danaïsi: pros ton strophea tês auleias echinou kephalês katoruttein. Aulion de kai proaulion oudeterôs.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites Menander fr. 546.2 Sandbach.
[1] cf. alpha 4436.
[2] Aristophanes fr. 255 Kock (now 266 K.A.), here garbled: "head" should be accusative, not genitive, and what is buried should be a head of schinos, i.e. mastich or lentisk-berry.
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 January 2002@00:13:00.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 29 January 2002@05:16:30.
David Whitehead (added note) on 28 August 2002@03:06:25.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 January 2008@06:46:24.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; cosmetics) on 1 July 2011@04:41:01.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 22 December 2014@07:26:04.
David Whitehead (typo; updated a ref) on 30 December 2014@11:07:55.

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