Ὦ Λακιάδαι

o Lakiadai!, o Laciadae!

Translated by Benjamin Stevens9 Apr 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

2 notes · 47 words
["O Lakiadai!" is a proverbial phrase] in reference to seducers.1 For Lakiadai [is] a deme of Attica,2 where [there are] many radishes, which they used to use when humiliating those caught [sc. in the act]. And if these were not available they would use rolling-pins pushed up.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὦ Λακιάδαι· ἐπὶ τῶν μοιχῶν λέγεται. δῆμος γὰρ τῆς Ἀττικῆς οἱ Λακιάδαι, ἐν ᾧ ῥαφανῖδες πολλαί, αἷς ἐχρῶντο κατὰ τῶν ληφθέντων ἐνυβρίζοντες. καὶ στελεοῖς δὲ ἐχρῶντο μὴ παρουσῶν τούτων ἀναβάστοις.

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*)=w *lakia/dai: e)pi\ tw=n moixw=n le/getai. dh=mos ga\r th=s *)attikh=s oi( *lakia/dai, e)n w(=| r(afani=des pollai/, ai(=s e)xrw=nto kata\ tw=n lhfqe/ntwn e)nubri/zontes. kai\ steleoi=s de\ e)xrw=nto mh\ parousw=n tou/twn a)naba/stois.

Notes (2)

  1. Posidippus fr. 4 Kock and Kassel-Austin; Mantissa Proverbiorum 3.50 and other paroemiographers.
  2. 1Moichoi: see mu 1354 through mu 1360. ↩
  3. 2Pausanias 1.37.2; J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 49; D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. Compare pi 1683, where the name is misspelled. ↩

References


K. Kapparis, "Humiliating the adulterer: the law and the practice in classical Athens", RIDA 43 (1996) 63-77

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Revision history8 revisions · last 12 Sep 2023
  1. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. expanded primary note; another keyword — David Whitehead
  4. another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
  5. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  7. augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. modified translation; added notes and bibliography — David Whitehead
  9. Translated — Benjamin Stevens

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