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Headword:
*koropla/qoi
Adler number: kappa,2100
Translated headword: figurine-makers, modellers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those modelling boys in wax or in chalk;[1] that is, every kind of creature. Those preparing from clay short images of all creatures, with which it is customary to deceive small children -- this man is called a modeller.
Modellers is the name for those modelling girls or boys out of clay or wax or some such material.[2]
Greek Original:*koropla/qoi: oi( tou\s ko/rous pla/ttontes khrw=| h)\ gu/yw|: toute/sti ta\ zw=|a pa/nta. oi( kataskeua/zontes ei)/dwla braxe/a e)k phlou= pa/ntwn zw/|wn, oi(=s e)capata=sqai ta\ paida/ria ei)/wqen, ou(=tos koropla/qos kalei=tai. *koropla/qous le/gousi tou\s e)k phlou= tinos h)\ khrou= h)\ toiau/ths tino\s u(/lhs pla/ttontas ko/ras h)\ kou/rous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon (and
Photius,
Lexicon kappa974 Theodoridis); generated, presumably, by
Plato,
Theaetetus 147B, where the genitive plural of this noun occurs (web address 1). See also under
omicron 397.
[2] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on the term in
Isocrates 15.2 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: art history; children; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 January 2009@06:04:10.
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