Γαυνάκας ἀμπεχόμενον
cloaked in mantles
Translated by Jennifer Benedict17 Jun 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
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Greek original · Adler’s text
Γαυνάκας ἀμπεχόμενον.
Betacode
*gauna/kas a)mpexo/menon.
Notes
- Also in Photius, Lexicon gamma41. Adler suggests a comic fragment: see now Comica adespota fr. 495 K.-A.
The participle is used in this way in the Christian writer Germanus, Narratio de haeresibus et synodis ad Anthimum diaconum 10:e)rrhgme/nous xitw=nas a)mpexo/menon .
A gaunaka (also kaunaka, Latin gaunaca) is a thick mantle of Persian or Babylonian origin (cf. Assyrian "gaunakka"); see kappa 1137. Clement of Alexandria mentions them at Paedagogus 2.9.77.1.
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict