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ten-foot shadow
Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Dec 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "but you'll take care, whenever the shadow [is] ten feet [long], to go off well-oiled1 to dinner."2 He is speaking of a sun-dial. That is, whenever the shadow of the sun is ten feet long, i.e. when it is evening.