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Headword:
*desmw/ths
Adler number: delta,272
Translated headword: chain-man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] both the enchained himself, like the enchained Prometheus, and the one enchaining.[1]
Cratinus in
Osier-Flask [writes] in reference to the prison-guards: "for he will see her in not much time tarred and burned before the chain-men."[2]
*desmw/ths: kai\ au)to\s o( de/smios, w(s o( desmw/ths *promhqeu/s: kai\ o( desmw=n. *krati=nos e)n *puti/nh| e)pi\ tw=n desmofula/kwn: o)/yei ga\r au)th\n e)kto\s ou) pollou= xro/nou pro\s toi=si desmw/taisi katapittoume/nhn.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Ajax 105, where the headword occurs.
Prometheus Desmotes (
Prometheus Bound) is one of the seven surviving tragedies attributed to
Aeschylus, though some modern scholars have challenged this.
[2]
Cratinus fr. 189 Kock, now 201 K.-A.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2002@10:20:36.
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