Φανοστράτη
Phanostrate
Translated by David Whitehead22 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[sc. Grammatically] feminine.
Apollodorus in the [treatise] On the Courtesans at Athens says that her nickname was Lousegate, because she used to stand at the gate picking off lice.1
Apollodorus in the [treatise] On the Courtesans at Athens says that her nickname was Lousegate, because she used to stand at the gate picking off lice.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φανοστράτη· θηλυκόν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν ἑταιρῶν ταύτην φησὶν ἐπονομάζεσθαι Φθειροπύλην, ἐπειδὴ ἐπὶ τῆς πύλης ἑστῶσα ἐφθειρίζετο.
Betacode
*fanostra/th: qhluko/n. *)apollo/dwros e)n tw=| peri\ tw=n *)aqh/nhsin e(tairw=n tau/thn fhsi\n e)ponoma/zesqai *fqeiropu/lhn, e)peidh\ e)pi\ th=s pu/lhs e(stw=sa e)fqeiri/zeto.
Notes (1)
- 1From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 22.56, where Sinope (see under sigma 465) and Phanostrate are mentioned: web address 1. Besides Apollodorus (FGrH 244 F209) see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.586A (13.50 Kaibel). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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- Translated — David Whitehead