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Headword:
*xrusi/s
Adler number: chi,570
Translated headword: gold-vessel
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a golden bowl. "Oh how I'm always at the mercy of ... gold-vessels!"[1] ["At the mercy of"] meaning subject to.
Greek Original:*xrusi/s: h( xrush= fia/lh. oi)/ m' w(s e)leh/mwn ei)/m' a)ei\ tw=n xrusi/dwn. a)nti\ tou= h(/ttwn.
Notes:
cf. Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Demosthenes 22.69 & 73 but going on to cite
Aristophanes (as below).
[1] Hermes in
Aristophanes,
Peace 425 (web address 1 below), with scholion; the usual reading of the line is
oi)/m' w(s rather than
oi)/ m' w(s as here. See also
Hesychius s.v.
The noun in the line, the present headword, is intended to be a surprise for an audience expecting (e.g.) 'suppliants'.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; religion; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 April 2008@00:20:54.
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