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Λαχάνοις · (among) vegetables (λ 164) · Suda

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Near λ164

λ160herb-garden, vegetable-garden
λ161herbal, vegetable
λ162to vegetable-gather
λ163Lachanon's
λ164(among) vegetables
λ165Lachares
λ166scanty land
λ167to get a court-hearing, to get a trial
λ168down, fuzzy hair, nap, pile

Suda/Λ lambda/λ164

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Λαχάνοις

(among) vegetables

Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝5 Jan 2005Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 23 words

Translation

[Meaning among] the vegetable-markets.¹
Many, when exhibiting adherence to an oath, swear by vegetables, saying 'by the vegetables' and 'by the fair ones'.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λαχάνοις· τοῖς λαχανοπωλίοις. ὅτι πολλοὶ εὐορκίαν ἐπιδεικνύμενοι πρὸς λάχανα ὀμνύουσι, μὰ τὰ λάχανα καὶ μὰ τὰ καλὰ λέγοντες.

Betacode

*laxa/nois: toi=s laxanopwli/ois. o(/ti polloi\ eu)orki/an e)pideiknu/menoi pro\s la/xana o)mnu/ousi, ma\ ta\ la/xana kai\ ma\ ta\ kala\ le/gontes.

Notes (2)

1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 556, where the dative-plural headword occurs (Lysistrata complains of armed and disruptive soldiers swaggering through the marketplace 'among the pots and among the vegetables'): see web address 1. For such metonymy cf. e.g. gamma 448, delta 903. ↩
2cf. mu 277, rho 13. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from5 entries

ε3617Εὐορκίαfidelity to an oath[Meaning] swearing well.
λ160Λαχανείαherb-garden, vegetable-garden[no gloss]
λ161Λαχανηρόνherbal, vegetable[no gloss]
λ162Λαχανίζεσθαιto vegetable-gatherMeaning to collect vegetables; [sc. formed] like to wood-gather and to kindling-gather.
μ277Μὰ τὰ λάχαναby the vegetablesThis [is] a sign concerning an oath; [one] which is even now customary: for many swear by vegetables when exhibiting adherence to an oath. But still also among the learned Armenians the [expression] "by the fair ones"…

Neighbouring entries

λ162Λαχανίζεσθαιto vegetable-gather λ163ΛαχάνωνοςLachanon's λ164Λαχάνοις(among) vegetables λ165ΛαχάρηςLachares λ166Λάχεια γῆscanty land

Revision history4 revisions · last 3 Feb 2014

3 Feb 2014another x-ref — David Whitehead
3 Apr 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
6 Jan 2005added link — Catharine Roth
6 Jan 2005modified aspects of translation; modified and augmented note(s); cosmetics — David Whitehead
5 Jan 2005Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Λαχάνοις (Adler number lambda 164), trans. Oliver Phillips ✝, 5 Jan 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/lambda/164

Translation by Oliver Phillips ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗