Φροντιστήριον
think-shop, meditation-place
Translated by Catharine Roth25 Feb 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φροντιστήριον· διατριβή, ἢ μοναστήριον· ὅπερ Ἀττικοὶ σεμνεῖον καλοῦσι.
Betacode
*frontisth/rion: diatribh/, h)\ monasth/rion: o(/per *)attikoi\ semnei=on kalou=si.
Notes (2)
- The headword, a neuter noun, is best-known to classicists as the pompous comic title of Socrates' academy for paying pupils in Aristophanes, Clouds 94 and passim; cf. under delta 857. It is not attested again until, in later Greek, it is used neutrally of a philosophical school or monastic community.
- 1cf. Hesychius s.v. ↩
- 2This entry seems to be recommending the word for use in Atticist writing. For
semnei=on , see sigma 223, theta 228. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 17 Jun 2016
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded notes — Catharine Roth
- cosmetic — David Whitehead
- x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth