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Headword:
*sisu/ra
Adler number: sigma,487
Translated headword: mantle, sisura
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] type of inexpensive cloak, like a one-shoulder tunic.[1]
"They went to
Byzantium, carrying their mantles by themselves on their shoulders, and they reached their destination having put nothing in them, in fact, except rolls of twice-baked bread from home."[2]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "when it was winter he took three mantles."[3] And elsewhere
Aristophanes [writes]: "how then could anyone save such a city that neither cloak nor mantle" -- [sc. that is] neither a useful nor a troublesome citizen -- "benefits?"[4]
*sisu/ra: xlai/nhs ei)=dos eu)telou=s, oi(=on e)cwmi/s. oi( de\ e)s *buza/ntion h)/|esan, sisu/ras e)pi\ tw=n w)/mwn au)toi\ fe/rontes, e)n ai(=s dh\ a)/llo ou)de/n, o(/ti mh\ dipu/rous a)/rtous oi)/koqen e)mbeblhme/noi a)fi/konto. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: xeimw=nos o)/ntos trei=s sisu/ras a)fei/leto. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: pw=s ou)=n tis au)= sw/seie toiau/thn po/lin, h(=| mh/te xlai=na mh/te sisu/ra; h(=| mh/te xrhsto\s mh/te o)xlhro\s poli/ths sumfe/rei.
Notes:
[1] This, as well as other comments and glosses in the entry, are drawn from commentary to
Aristophanes, including commentary to the two passages quoted here (nn. 3 & 4 below). See also
sigma 488, and more generally
sigma 486.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 6.3, in reference to Illyrian soldiers; already at
delta 1265.
[3] A misquotation of
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 421, where
o)feile/tw ('he shall owe') has become the Suda's
a)fei/leto ('he took').
[4]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1458-9.
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 February 2014@07:02:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note numbers and another x-ref; cosmetics; raised status) on 18 February 2014@07:55:27.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 18 February 2014@09:25:39.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 18 February 2014@09:58:10.
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