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Κεστὸν ἱμάντα · embroidered girdle (κ 1427) · Suda

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Near κ1427

κ1423I taunt
κ1424taunting
κ1425lift
κ1426it was not Keskos
κ1427embroidered girdle
κ1428kestos, girdle
κ1429mullets' slices
κ1430mullets, kestreai
κ1431mullet, kestreus

Suda/Κ kappa/κ1427

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Κεστὸν ἱμάντα

embroidered girdle

Translated by Catharine Roth9 Nov 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 18 words

Translation

[Meaning] a decorated girdle.¹
In which, as the story was told, all the charms for deception were contained.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κεστὸν ἱμάντα· ποικίλον ἱμάντα. ᾧ πάντα ἐμυθεύετο ἐνυπάρχειν τὰ πρὸς ἀπάτην θελκτήρια.

Betacode

*kesto\n i(ma/nta: poiki/lon i(ma/nta. w(=| pa/nta e)muqeu/eto e)nupa/rxein ta\ pro\s a)pa/thn qelkth/ria.

Notes (2)

See also kappa 1428.
1Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon; see the references at Photius kappa622 Theodoridis. This phrase in the accusative case is quoted from Homer, Iliad 14.214 (web address 1). See further, next note. ↩
2cf. the scholia on Homer, Iliad 14.214 (where Hera borrows Aphrodite's magic girdle).

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

ι350Ἱμερόενταdelightful[Meaning] lovely. [Meaning] shining. In the Epigrams: "Kythereia herself granted you to have the delightful girdle from her breasts." Also [sc. attested is the nominative] i(mero/eis, [meaning] desirable.
κ1428Κεστόςkestos, girdleThe embroidered and decorated girdle; or a garment of Aphrodite. But by extension, also all the showy garments of women. And in the Epigrams: "and [she] sounding more magically than the kestos". Meaning more enticingly.…

Neighbouring entries

κ1425Κεροίαξlift κ1426Κέσκος οὐκ ἦνit was not Keskos κ1427Κεστὸν ἱμάνταembroidered girdle κ1428Κεστόςkestos, girdle κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices

Revision history4 revisions · last 11 Apr 2015

11 Apr 2015coding — Catharine Roth
20 Feb 2013upgraded link — Catharine Roth
19 Feb 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
10 Nov 2008augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
9 Nov 2008Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κεστὸν ἱμάντα (Adler number kappa 1427), trans. Catharine Roth, 9 Nov 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/1427

Translation by Catharine Roth 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 ↗