Κνάφος
carding-comb
Translated by David Whitehead13 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
A particular tool, with spikes in a circle, with which they kill those being tortured; it is similar to a fuller's comb.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κνάφος· ὄργανόν τι ἐν κύκλῳ κέντρα ἔχον, δι' οὗ τοὺς βασανιζομένους κτείνουσιν· ὅμοιον δέ ἐστι κναφικῷ κτενί.
Betacode
*kna/fos: o)/rgano/n ti e)n ku/klw| ke/ntra e)/xon, di' ou(= tou\s basanizome/nous ktei/nousin: o(/moion de/ e)sti knafikw=| kteni/.
Notes
- For this headword in another sense see kappa 1854. The present entry is the same in Photius (kappa812 Theodoridis); also Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. for its first part. The present headword is not extant in Plato, but see e.g. Herodotus 1.92.4 on Croesus' treatment of Pantaleon (web address 1); cf. Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus 858F.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- ε2396Ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκειςyou are dragging [me] on a carding-comb[Meaning] that you are destroying [me]. For fullers card cloaks by collecting a pile of thorns. The pile used to be called a knaphos.
- κ1854Κνάφοςcarding-combIn Herodotus [this means] a thorn dragging through clothes. In times past carders would comb wool by rolling up a heap of thorns. And the heap was called knaphos.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 5 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead