Πιθάκνη
casklet, small cask
Translated by Catharine Roth6 May 2012Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πιθάκνη· ὑποκοριστικῶς. μικρὸς πίθος. ὡς πολίχνη. παρὰ δὲ Ἀριστοφάνει πιθάκναι, οἱ ἔρημοι τόποι· διὰ γὰρ τὸν πόλεμον σπηλαίοις ᾤκουν οἱ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν. οἱ δὲ παλαιοὶ φιδάκνην λέγουσι.
Betacode
*piqa/knh: u(pokoristikw=s. mikro\s pi/qos. w(s poli/xnh. para\ de\ *)aristofa/nei piqa/knai, oi( e)/rhmoi to/poi: dia\ ga\r to\n po/lemon sphlai/ois w)/|koun oi( e)k tw=n a)grw=n. oi( de\ palaioi\ fida/knhn le/gousi.
Notes (5)
- 1From a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 546. See further below, n. 3. ↩
- 2That is, a (relatively) small version of a type of large jar (cf. pi 1585). Same or similar gloss in other lexica; references at Photius pi875 Theodoridis. ↩
- 3Again from a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 546, where the genitive singular of either the present headword or its Attic equivalent
fida/xnh (below, at n. 5) -- editors vary in which they print -- occurs. The comparandumpoli/xnh is a diminutive ofpo/lis , and as a proper noun, the name of several small cities (see LSJ s.v.). ↩ - 4From a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 792, where the sausage-seller refers to the personified Demos as 'living for the eighth year in the casklets and crannies and mini-towers'. The calculation dates from the "Periclean" evacuation of Attica in 432 BCE: see the famous account in Thucydides 2.14-17, esp. 2.17.1 & 4 on this makeshift accommodation. ↩
- 5Also in Photius (above); cf. Moeris (who calls it a large pithos) and Hesychius (who says it is small and narrow). ↩
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Revision history2 revisions · last 3 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth