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Headword: *xoo/s
Adler number: chi,394
Translated headword: of a chous
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A measure/quantity] of two pints. For a xou=s [is] two pints and a xoeu/s is six.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "if a huckster or huckstress falsifies the measure of the chous or the kotulai [...]"[2]
Greek Original:
*xoo/s: dice/stou: xou=s ga\r du/o ce/stai, xoeu\s de\ e(/c. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)/ tis ka/phlos h)\ kaphli\s tou= xoo\s h)\ tw=n kotulw=n to\ no/misma dialumai/netai.
Notes:
[1] According to LSJ (s.v. xo/es; web address 1) a xou=s and a xoeu/s are the same thing; approximately 5.7 pints. See also chi 362.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 347-348 (web address 2). What precedes the quotation in this entry is from the scholia to line 347. For more on hucksters, male and female, see kaphli/s (kappa 335) and ka/phlos (kappa 336).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; science and technology; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 April 2008@01:16:43.
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David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 April 2008@04:09:04.
David Whitehead on 12 November 2013@07:35:42.
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