Κωνῆσαι πίθον
to pitch (?) a wine-jar
Translated by David Whitehead7 Oct 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[no gloss]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κωνῆσαι πίθον.
Betacode
*kwnh=sai pi/qon.
Notes
- 'Pitch' in the sense of cover with pitch, though the other meaning of
kwna/w , 'spin' is perhaps not to be excluded; see LSJ s.v.kwna/w (web address 1).
The headword phrase might be quoted from somewhere; if so, perhaps from comedy. (The Etymologicum Magnum cites Aristophanes for this aorist infinitive.)
For wine-jars (pithoi) see alpha 3230, zeta 127, pi 1585, and frequently elsewhere.