Ἀλαβαστοθήκας
perfume-bottle boxes, scent-bottle boxes
Translated by Catharine Roth3 Jul 2000Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes calls boxes of scent-bottles [this].1 In common parlance they call them murothekai ["unguent-boxes"]. Alabastoi are flasks of which one cannot take hold because of [their] smoothness.2
Aristophanes [writes]: "into the scent-bottle one ladle of peace". As if he was saying one spoonful.3
Aristophanes [writes]: "into the scent-bottle one ladle of peace". As if he was saying one spoonful.3