Κοῖτις
bedlet
Translated by William Hutton28 Apr 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a small basket,1 in Attic dialect. For they call a basket a bedlet. It is what women put away their gold things in when they go to bed.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κοῖτις· ἡ μικρὰ κίστη, Ἀττικῶς. τὴν γὰρ κίστην κοῖτιν λέγουσιν. ἔστι δὲ ἐν αἷς κοιταζόμεναι γυναῖκες ἀπετίθεντο τὰ χρυσία.
Betacode
*koi=tis: h( mikra\ ki/sth, *)attikw=s. th\n ga\r ki/sthn koi=tin le/gousin. e)/sti de\ e)n ai(=s koitazo/menai gunai=kes a)peti/qento ta\ xrusi/a.
Notes (1)
- = (with minor differences) Etymologicum Gudianum 333.15; Etymologicum Magnum 524.15 (for which Adler cites as a source Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.456.7); scholia to Lucian 61.21 Rabe; cf. Hesychius kappa3275, Pollux 7.160. At Photius, Lexicon lambda159 (s.v.
lekani/s ) the term is defined somewhat differently as referring to the container in which fathers would send brides gifts of gold on the day after a wedding. Contrast also Etymologicum Gudianum 324.6. - 1For 'basket' cf. kappa 1678, kappa 1679. ↩
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- coding etc. — David Whitehead
- typo — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
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- Translated — William Hutton