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Headword:
*(etai=rai
*kori/nqiai
Adler number: epsilon,3266
Translated headword: Corinthian courtesans
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Lais,[1] Cyrene, Leaina,
Sinope,[2] Pyrrhine,[3] Scione, Thracian Rhodopis,[4] the fellow-slave of Aesop the story-teller, who after being freed stayed in Egypt [sc. were all courtesans].
Aristophanes says in
Wealth: "and they say that the Corinthian courtesans, whenever a working man gives them a try, pay him no mind; but if a rich man [does], they turn the ass to him[5] right away."
*(etai=rai *kori/nqiai: *lai/+s, *kurh/nh, *le/aina, *sinw/ph, *purri/nh, *skiw/nh, *(rodw=pis *qra|kikh/, su/ndoulos *ai)sw/pou tou= logopoiou=: h(/tis e)leuqerwqei=sa kate/meinen e)n *ai)gu/ptw|. fhsi\ de\ *)aristofa/nhs e)n *plou/tw|: kai\ ta/s g' e(tai/ras fasi\ ta\s *korinqi/as, o(/tan me\n au)ta/s tis pe/nhs peirw=n tu/xh|, ou)de\ prose/xein to\n nou=n: a)\n de\ plou/sios, to\n prwkto\n au)ta\s eu)qu\s ei)s tou=ton tre/pein.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 149-152, with scholion; again (summarily) at
pi 1462.
cf. generally
epsilon 3265 and the other cross-references there.
[1] cf.
lambda 40.
[2] cf.
sigma 465.
[3] Myrrhine, rather.
[4] cf.
rho 211.
[5] On this and other sexual positions practised by courtesans see generally James Davidson,
Courtesans and Fishcakes (London 1997) 118; and on this rare use of
prwkto/s in reference to women, Jeffrey Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 150 #204.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2000@12:28:01.
Vetted by:Debra Hamel (altered translation, added note) on 6 October 2000@19:13:29.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note) on 27 March 2001@04:49:48.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 4 December 2005@09:05:46.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 January 2008@06:50:44.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 2 November 2012@07:46:28.
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