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Headword: *xerni/ba
Adler number: chi,209
Translated headword: hand-bath
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] water. Aristophanes says: "bring the basket and the hand-bath."[1]
Greek Original:
*xerni/ba: to\ u(/dwr. fhsi\n *)aristofa/nhs: to\ kanou=n ai)/resqe kai\ th\n xerni/ba.
Notes:
The headword is accusative case of this noun, extracted from the quotation; again chi 210; and cf. chi 211, chi 212.
[1] Aristophanes, Birds 850 (web address 1 below), with scholion. See also Hesychius, and the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.136 (where the headword also appears: web address 2). The word is frequently used in Homer and forms part of a formulaic "washing up for dinner" sequence, especially in the Odyssey.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2008@15:45:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 20 March 2008@09:49:58.
David Whitehead on 10 November 2013@07:47:51.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 1 June 2016@03:14:34.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 4 May 2023@15:16:25.

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