Κυνῆ
dog-cap
Translated by William Hutton12 Mar 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "boat or dog-cap."1 In reference to ambiguous things. "Boat" inasmuch as triremes have wings2 and wings stretch out like oars; "dog-cap" because she3 has as her headgear the petasos,4 like Hermes, since she is a messenger. And the Peloponnesians call the petasos a "dog-cap".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κυνῆ· Ἀριστοφάνης· πλοῖον ἢ κυνῆ. ἐπὶ τῶν ἀμφιβόλων πραγμάτων. πλοῖον μέν, καθὸ ἐπτέρωνται αἱ τριήρεις καὶ τὰ πτερὰ διατέταται ὥσπερ κῶπαι· κυνῆ δέ, ὅτι ἔχει περικεφαλαίαν τὸν πέτασον, ὡς ὁ Ἑρμῆς, ἄγγελος ὤν. καὶ οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι δὲ κυνῆν τὸν πέτασόν φασι.
Betacode
*kunh=: *)aristofa/nhs: ploi=on h)\ kunh=. e)pi\ tw=n a)mfibo/lwn pragma/twn. ploi=on me/n, kaqo\ e)pte/rwntai ai( trih/reis kai\ ta\ ptera\ diate/tatai w(/sper kw=pai: kunh= de/, o(/ti e)/xei perikefalai/an to\n pe/tason, w(s o( *(ermh=s, a)/ggelos w)/n. kai\ oi( *peloponnh/sioi de\ kunh=n to\n pe/taso/n fasi.
Notes (4)
- 1Aristophanes, Birds 1203 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia; also at pi 1815. Cf. kappa 2698. ↩
- 2When triremes had their oars spread in preparation for navigation, they were said to be "winged"; cf. Polybios 1.46.11. ↩
- 3The goddess Iris. ↩
- 4The petasos was a broad-brimmed hat frequently worn by travellers; pi 1387. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 5 Mar 2020
- another cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton