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Headword:
*khruki/nas
Adler number: kappa,1540
Translated headword: heraldess
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a female [herald].[1]
And Alexandrians used to call khru/kinai the women who went into the courtyards and apartment-houses to gather up the soiled cloths (which they called fula/kia[2]) and carry them away to the sea.[3]
Greek Original:*khru/kaina: qh/leia. kai\ *khruki/nas e)ka/loun *)alecandrei=s gunai=kas, ai(/tines ei)s ta\s au)la\s pariou=sai kai\ ta\s sunoiki/as, e)f' w(=|te sunagei/rein ta\ mia/smata kai\ a)pofe/rein ei)s qa/lassan, a(/per e)ka/loun fula/kia.
Notes:
[1] The primary headword is
khru/kaina (erroneous in the electronic text), which occurs in
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 713 (and the character herself at 834ff.).
[2] On these menstrual cloths, see
phi 823; cf.
upsilon 166.
[3] From
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 104 Zintzen; cf.
Photius,
Bibliotheca 338b25.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2003@01:16:54.
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