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Χοιρῖναι · mussels (χ 596) · Suda

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χ592reefs
χ593sow
χ594Choirilos, Choerilus
χ595Choirilos, Choerilus, Khoirilos
χ596mussels
χ597of mystery pigs, of mystery swine
χ598coney, hyrax
χ599cunt-chafer, piggie-squeezer
χ600pig-pen

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Χοιρῖναι

mussels

Translated by David Whitehead26 Nov 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

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2 notes · 36 words

Translation

[Meaning] shells from the sea, which they also [or: even] used to use in the jurycourts in Athens↗.
Also the bristle of the hog.¹
"Thus do I crave to go round the tablets with a shell."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χοιρῖναι· κόγχαι θαλάσσιαι, αἷς καὶ ἐν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις ἐχρῶντο Ἀθήνησι. καὶ ἡ θρὶξ τοῦ χοίρου. οὕτω κιττῶμαι διὰ τῶν σανίδων μετὰ χοιρίνης περιελθεῖν.

Betacode

*xoiri=nai: ko/gxai qala/ssiai, ai(=s kai\ e)n toi=s dikasthri/ois e)xrw=nto *)aqh/nhsi. kai\ h( qri\c tou= xoi/rou. ou(/tw kittw=mai dia\ tw=n sani/dwn meta\ xoiri/nhs perielqei=n.

Notes (2)

Improbable as it might seem, there does appear to be adequate evidence for the use of mussel-shells (as well as the better-known pebbles: psi 85) by Athenian jurors in the C5 BCE. (Bronze voting-disks, in pairs, are not attested until the C4.) Besides the line quoted here see also Wasps 333 (web address 1) and Knights 1332 (web address 2).
1No: see LSJ s.v. (web address 3). ↩
2Aristophanes, Wasps 349 (web address 4); cf. kappa 1688, end.

References

Aristophanes, Wasps, edited with introduction and commentary by Douglas MacDowell (Oxford 1971) 142-3

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

χ594ΧοιρίλοςChoirilos, Choerilus χ595ΧοιρίλοςChoirilos, Choerilus, Khoirilos χ596Χοιρῖναιmussels χ597Χοιρίων μυστηρικῶνof mystery pigs, of mystery swine χ598Χοιρογρύλλιοςconey, hyrax

Revision history8 revisions · last 26 Aug 2019

26 Aug 2019reordered notes — Catharine Roth
14 Nov 2013 — David Whitehead
26 Feb 2013 — David Whitehead
14 Jul 2003corrected a reference; cosmetics — David Whitehead
14 Jul 2003added links and keywords, set status — William Hutton
6 Sep 2002augmented note — David Whitehead
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26 Nov 2001Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Χοιρῖναι (Adler number chi 596), trans. David Whitehead, 26 Nov 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/chi/596

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗