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Headword: *subh/nh
Adler number: sigma,1273
Translated headword: sheath, subene
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a leather pipe-case. Or a quiver.[1] Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "but I have nothing; but take a pipe-case."[2]
Greek Original:
*subh/nh: h( dermati/nh au)loqh/kh. h)\ h( fare/tra. *qesmoforiazou/sais *)aristofa/nhs: a)ll' ou)k e)/xw ou)de/n. a)lla\ subh/nhn la/be.
Notes:
Same entry in Photius, Lexicon sigma660 Theodoridis.
cf. sigma 1317, sigma 1661.
[1] Also in Etymologicum Magnum 732.25; cf. scholion on Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1197 (next note), Hesychius sigma2136, Pollux 7.153.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1197 (which has a definite article, to/ "the pipe-case" -- ungrammatically with this feminine noun, because a Skythian is speaking). Some modern editions print the noun as subi/nh.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; meter and music; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 May 2014@01:41:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 1 May 2014@03:04:49.
David Whitehead (coding) on 26 May 2016@10:26:40.

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