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Headword:
*tetti/gwn
a)na/mestoi
Adler number: tau,378
Translated headword: full of cicadas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes employed cicadas because the ancients used to use [sc. an ornament in the form of] a cicada in fastening up their hair -- a sign that the Athenians are autochthonous, just like cicadas.
Greek Original:*tetti/gwn a)na/mestoi: tou\s te/ttigas pare/laben *)aristofa/nhs, e)peidh\ oi( palaioi\ kata\ th\n a)naplokh\n tw=n trixw=n xrusw=| e)xrw=nto te/ttigi, tekmh/rion o(/ti au)to/xqone/s ei)sin oi( *)aqhnai=oi, w(s kai\ oi( te/ttiges.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Clouds 984, where the headword phrase occurs in the neuter plural instead of this masculine. See web address 1.
See also
tau 377,
kappa 1349.
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 November 2008@19:50:34.
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