Ῥυτά
rhyta, cups, reins
Translated by David Whitehead30 Oct 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
With a short vowel [sc. a rhyton is] a kind of drinking-cup. Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Meidias [sc. mentions one].1 With a long vowel, [rhyta are] what they are said to be amongst us.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥυτά· συνεσταλμένως. εἶδός ἐστι ποτηρίου. Δημοσθένης κατὰ Μειδίου. ἐκτεταμένως, παρ' ἥβην λεγόμενα.
Betacode
*(ruta/: sunestalme/nws. ei)=do/s e)sti pothri/ou. *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *meidi/ou. e)ktetame/nws, par' h(/bhn lego/mena.
Notes (2)
- Abridged from Harpokration s.v.; cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.496F (11.97 Kaibel).
- 1Demosthenes 21.158 (web address 1). Related to the verb
r(e/w . ↩ - 2i.e. reins. Related to
e)ru/w (A) in LSJ. ("Amongst us", corrupted here frompar' h(mi=n to the meaninglesspar' h(/bhn , comes from Harpok. and Photius.) ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Neighbouring entries
Revision history6 revisions · last 15 Jan 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
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- added missing note number; augmented notes — David Whitehead
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- Translated — David Whitehead