Ὀκλαδίας

folding chair, camp-stool

Translated by Catharine Roth18 Nov 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 35 words

[Meaning] a seat folded-together, and at one time stretched out, but at another time shortened.¹
And elsewhere [it is written]: "[of those] leaping with bent legs into deep mud."² The saying [is] about a frog.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀκλαδίας· ὁ συγκεκλασμένος δίφρος, καὶ ποτὲ μὲν ἐκτεινόμενος, ποτὲ δὲ συστελλόμενος. καὶ αὖθις· βαθεῖαν εἰς ἰλὺν ὀκλαστὶ πηδώντων. περὶ βατράχου ὁ λόγος.

Betacode

*)okladi/as: o( sugkeklasme/nos di/fros, kai\ pote\ me\n e)kteino/menos, pote\ de\ sustello/menos. kai\ au)=qis: baqei=an ei)s i)lu\n o)klasti\ phdw/ntwn. peri\ batra/xou o( lo/gos.

Notes (2)

1From a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 1384, where the headword occurs (in the accusative: web address 1); cf. Hesychius omicron475, Photius omicron178 Theodoridis. This noun is related to the verb o)kla/zw (omicron 110, omega 50). ↩
2Babrius 25.7, with the related adverb o)klasti/. ↩

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ο107Ὁ ΚίςKis, Kish ο108Ὀκλαδίαcrouching ο109Ὀκλαδίαςfolding chair, camp-stool ο110Ὀκλάζειsquats ο111Ὀκλὰξ καθήμενοςseated squatting

Revision history4 revisions · last 26 Dec 2020

26 Dec 2020tweaked link — Catharine Roth
23 Jun 2013Revised — David Whitehead
18 Nov 2009expanded note — Catharine Roth
18 Nov 2009more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
18 Nov 2009Translated — Catharine Roth

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Greek original · Adler’s text

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