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Headword: *xitwni/skous
Adler number: chi,321
Translated headword: short tunics
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Xenophon [writes]: "they [the Mossynoecians] wore short tunics which stopped above the knees, about as thick as the linen of a bed-sack".[1]
Greek Original:
*xitwni/skous: *cenofw=n: xitwni/skous de\ e)nededu/kesan u(pe\r gona/twn, pa/xos w(s lino\n strwmatode/smou.
Notes:
The headword, accusative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation.
cf. generally chi 320.
[1] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13 (web address 1), with li/nou instead of the Suda's li/non; '... about as thick as a linen bed-sack'.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@04:25:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note) on 6 September 2002@05:08:29.
William Hutton (modified translation, added link and keyword, set status) on 11 July 2003@05:09:27.
David Whitehead (tidied up (re-)translation) on 11 July 2003@05:14:09.
David Whitehead on 11 November 2013@08:53:12.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 27 May 2023@23:28:49.
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