Κηπαία

Notes

1. Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; very similar one in ps.-Zonaras. It has probably been generated by the genitive of the headword (a feminine noun) in Hermippus fr. 47 Kock (preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosphists 15.668A = 15.6 Kaibel), now 48 K.-A.: "as for the unhappy pan, you may see that resting beside the socket of the khpai/a in a pile of sweepings". Without any further information, the Suda and ps.-Zonaras assumed that the thing in a garden with a socket was some kind of snare or trap. But Pollux names the khpai/a qu/ra as a part of the house in 1.76, and as a derivative of kh=pos in 9.13; garden doors are also mentioned in Diogenes Laertius 7.25. This reading is accepted by LSJ s.v. khpai=os II.