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Ἑταιρίστριαι · courtesanizers (ε 3273) · Suda

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Near ε3273

ε3269Hetaireios; of Fellowship
ε3270comradeship
ε3271being companionable
ε3272associating one's self
ε3273courtesanizers
ε3274companion, comrade
ε3275I am a companion, I keep (someone) company
ε3276of flowered courtesans
ε3277years

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε3273

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Ἑταιρίστριαι

courtesanizers

Translated by William Hutton4 Feb 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

comedy
daily life
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
ethics
gender and sexuality
+2
- philosophy
- women

1 note · 4 words

Translation

[Meaning] the so-called rubbers.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἑταιρίστριαι· αἱ καλούμεναι τριβάδες.

Betacode

*(etairi/striai: ai( kalou/menai triba/des.

Notes (1)

= Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 987a 26; Moeris 196.24; Hesychius epsilon6489; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2070 (cf. delta1689) -- all stemming from the use of the feminine nominative plural headword in Plato, Symposium 191E (web address 1).
See also Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 5.2, with scholion.
1Grammatically feminine, so women who rub, masturbate (themselves or each other). See Chantraine s.v. tri/bw, and cf. under omicron 169.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

ε3265Ἑταίραcourtesan, companion, hetaira[Meaning] girlfriend, prostitute. "Scipio drove out from the encampment courtesans and sacrificers and seers, whom the soldiers, having become frightened on account of the bad turn of events, were resorting to."
χ116ΧαριξένηCharixeneSimple and stupid [was] Charixene, a courtesan. Aristophanes [writes]: "for the present time is not the era of Charixene".

Neighbouring entries

ε3271Ἑταιριζομένηbeing companionable ε3272Ἑταιρισάμενοςassociating one's self ε3273Ἑταιρίστριαιcourtesanizers ε3274Ἑταῖροςcompanion, comrade ε3275ἙταιρῶI am a companion, I keep (someone) company

Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Jan 2018

8 Jan 2018supplied link — Catharine Roth
23 Nov 2014tweaks — Catharine Roth
2 Nov 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
4 Feb 2008tweaked tr; augmented and modified notes — David Whitehead
4 Feb 2008Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἑταιρίστριαι (Adler number epsilon 3273), trans. William Hutton, 4 Feb 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3273

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