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Headword: *lakwnikai\ klei=des
Adler number: lambda,64
Translated headword: Lakonian keys, Laconian keys
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The same Aristophanes[1] [mentions them]; they are famous. "For the husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with [three] teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [Euripides] has taught them to have [seals] made of worm-eaten wood hanging from their belts".[2] For he says that ancient [keys] are single-bolted. Menander in Misoumenos [writes]: "a Lakonian key, it seems to me, should be deployed".[3] He is saying that [with such a key a door] is locked from outside, by the positioning of a bar or something of the kind, so that those inside cannot open it.
Greek Original:
*lakwnikai\ klei=des: o( au)to\s *)aristofa/nhs: peribo/htoi de/ ei)sin au(=tai. oi( ga\r a)/ndres h)/dh kleidi/a forou=si krupta/, kakohqe/stata, *lakwni/ka a)/tta, e)/xonta gomfi/ous. pro\ tou= me\n ou)=n h)=n a)ll' u(poi=cai th\n qu/ran poihsame/naisi daktu/lion triwbo/lou: nu=n d' ou(=tos au)tou\s e)di/dace qriphde/stat' e)/xein sfragi=da e)cayame/nous. ta\ ga\r a)rxai=a monoba/lana/ fhsin ei)=nai. *me/nandros *misoume/nais: *lakwnikh\ klei/s e)stin, w(s e)/oike/ moi, perioiste/a, fhsi/n, o(/ti e)/cwqen periklei/etai, moxlou= peritiqeme/nou h)/ tinos toiou/tou: w(/ste toi=s e)/ndon mh\ ei)=nai a)noi=cai.
Notes:
[1] sc. As in the preceding two entries, lambda 62 and lambda 63.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 421-7 (web address 1), with scholion. See already kappa 159.
[3] Menander, Misoumenos fr. 8 Sandbach.
References:
I.M. Barton, "Tranio's Laconian key", Greece & Rome 19 (1972) 25-31
D. Whitehead, "The Lakonian key", Classical Quarterly 40 (1990) 267-8
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 July 2001@08:39:49.
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