Χερνίβα
hand-bath
Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] water. Aristophanes says: "bring the basket and the hand-bath."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Χερνίβα· τὸ ὕδωρ. φησὶν Ἀριστοφάνης· τὸ κανοῦν αἴρεσθε καὶ τὴν χερνίβα.
Betacode
*xerni/ba: to\ u(/dwr. fhsi\n *)aristofa/nhs: to\ kanou=n ai)/resqe kai\ th\n xerni/ba.
Notes (1)
- The headword is accusative case of this noun, extracted from the quotation; again chi 210; and cf. chi 211, chi 212.↩
- 1Aristophanes, Birds 850 (web address 1 below), with scholion. See also Hesychius, and the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.136 (where the headword also appears: web address 2). The word is frequently used in Homer and forms part of a formulaic "washing up for dinner" sequence, especially in the Odyssey.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 data.perseus.org
Linked from4 entries
- χ196Χέμετλαchilblains[sc. formed] like xe/rniba ['hand-bath'].
- χ210Χέρνιβαhand-bathProparoxytone by analogy, but paroxytone in the poets. And elsewhere: "they killed those who were washing their hands and were at the very altars."
- χ211Χέρνιβοςhand-bath"I want to justly reproach [both sides] in common, you who sprinkle the altars from a single hand-bath -- just like relatives -- at Olympia, at Pylai, at Pytho; I could name many other places, if I didn't have to keep…
- χ212Χερνίβωνof ewers, of hand-bathsDemosthenes says: "and [him] laying hold of ewers and baskets". [This] might be from the nominative chernips. The comic poets, too, mention the ewer, as something taken along to sacrifices.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 4 May 2023
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
- my typo — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict