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Headword: *sisu/ra
Adler number: sigma,486
Translated headword: hair-cloak
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An outer garment rough and thick; an old-fashioned cloak worn by farmers and slaves; or a leather tunic.[1]
"They say that the north wind and the sun had a contest of this kind: which of them could remove the hair-cloak of a rustic traveler man."[2]
Greek Original:
*sisu/ra: i(ma/tion traxu\ kai\ paxu/: peribo/laion a)groikiko/n, douliko/n, palaio/n: h)\ xitw\n derma/tinos. bore/h| le/gousin h(li/w| te toiau/thn e)/rin gene/sqai, po/teros a)ndro\s a)groi/kou o(doiporou=ntos th\n sisu/ran e)kdu/sei.
Notes:
See also sigma 487 and sigma 488; also delta 1265.
[1] LSJ entry at web address 1. The word is used several times by Aristophanes (e.g. Wasps 738, Birds 122, Frogs 1459), and these glosses appear in the scholia there.
[2] Babrius 18.1-3.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; mythology; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 October 2001@00:33:29.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 October 2001@05:42:37.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 23 February 2005@00:22:36.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 18 August 2011@05:29:38.
David Whitehead (corrected a ref, at the prompting of Antoine Biscere) on 26 March 2015@12:04:48.
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