Ποδοκάκη
stocks
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝20 May 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A timber, by which, putting the feet in an enclosure, they hold them together; what among Romans is called a kouspos.1
"And in an enclosure and stocks they waited, straining and suffering."2
It is also called a podostrabe ["foot-snare, gin"].3
"As if held in some foot-snares they were slaughtered in the ditches."4
"And in an enclosure and stocks they waited, straining and suffering."2
It is also called a podostrabe ["foot-snare, gin"].3
"As if held in some foot-snares they were slaughtered in the ditches."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ποδοκάκη· ξύλον, ᾧ ἐν εἱρκτῇ τοὺς πόδας ἐμβάλλοντες συνέχουσιν· ὃ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις κοῦσπος καλεῖται. ἐν εἱρκτῇ τε καὶ ποδοκάκῃ στρεβλούμενοι καὶ ταλαιπωρούμενοι ἔμενον. λέγεται καὶ Ποδοστράβη. ὡς ἐν ποδοστράβαις τισιν ἐνειργόμενοι τοῖς βόθροις ἐκτείνοντο.
Betacode
*podoka/kh: cu/lon, w(=| e)n ei(rkth=| tou\s po/das e)mba/llontes sune/xousin: o(\ para\ *(rwmai/ois kou=spos kalei=tai. e)n ei(rkth=| te kai\ podoka/kh| streblou/menoi kai\ talaipwrou/menoi e)/menon. le/getai kai\ *podostra/bh. w(s e)n podostra/bais tisin e)neirgo/menoi toi=s bo/qrois e)ktei/nonto.
Notes (4)
- See also pi 1848, where Harpokration gives the false, single-k etymology of the word; its authentic spelling, despite entries like these, has kk (see LSJ entry at web address 1).
- 1Same glossing in Photius (pi985 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; and cf. under omicroniota 34. ↩
- 2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 3cf. pi 1849. ↩
- 4Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- οι34ΟἰδίπουςOedipus, OidipousLaius, king of Thebes, got a wife Jocasta, who bore him a son Oedipus. After he was born, the father received an oracle saying that the son would sleep with his own mother; and he ordered him to be thrown out onto the…
- π976Πεντεσυρίγγῳ ξύλῳin a five-tubed timberIn the stocks. For it has five apertures, through which the feet and the hands and the neck are inserted.
- π1848ΠοδοκάκηstocksDemosthenes [in the speech] Against Timokrates [sc. uses the word]. The wood[en device] in the prison used to be called this; either with the other k interpolated, [i.e.] there being some harm [kakosis] of the feet; or,…
- π1849Ποδοστράβηfoot-snareThey used to call podostrabai certain devices prepared by the huntsmen, into which the wild beasts would enter and be caught. So Hyperides and Xenophon [sc. use the word].
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Revision history5 revisions · last 17 Mar 2021
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; tweaks — David Whitehead
- added link — Catharine Roth
- modified headword and translation; added notes; augmented keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝