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Adler number: kappa,2701
Translated headword: dog-cap
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [writes]: "boat or dog-cap."[1] In reference to ambiguous things. "Boat" inasmuch as triremes have wings[2] and wings stretch out like oars; "dog-cap" because she[3] has as her headgear the petasos,[4] like Hermes, since she is a messenger. And the Peloponnesians call the petasos a "dog-cap".
Greek Original:*kunh=: *)aristofa/nhs: ploi=on h)\ kunh=. e)pi\ tw=n a)mfibo/lwn pragma/twn. ploi=on me/n, kaqo\ e)pte/rwntai ai( trih/reis kai\ ta\ ptera\ diate/tatai w(/sper kw=pai: kunh= de/, o(/ti e)/xei perikefalai/an to\n pe/tason, w(s o( *(ermh=s, a)/ggelos w)/n. kai\ oi( *peloponnh/sioi de\ kunh=n to\n pe/taso/n fasi.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1203 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia; also at
pi 1815. Cf.
kappa 2698.
[2] When triremes had their oars spread in preparation for navigation, they were said to be "winged"; cf.
Polybios 1.46.11.
[3] The goddess Iris.
[4] The petasos was a broad-brimmed hat frequently worn by travellers;
pi 1387.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 12 March 2008@10:30:43.
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