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μ20ΜάγνηςMagnes… "sending out". "Plucking" would be a reference to [the play] Barbatistai [Barbiton-players]. It is a play of Magnes. The barbitos is a sort of musical instrument. "Fluttering wings" [is said] because he composed a …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… because it was vulgar. But many of the slaves were barbarians and Arabians, about whom a proverb is said: "he plays the pipe for a drachma, but he stops for four." Also "Arabian piper", …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι299Αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦto lift one's foot out of the mud… anyone still gives me something to drink [...] but the barbarian woman has gone and taken the wine away from us along with the table."Matched in translationhighmedium
χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… to a great herd of cows." The phrase [is] about barbarian troop-marshalling. Herodotus [writes]: "the matter of the storm was unbearable." Aristophanes [writes]: "how long the matter of nights is!" [This means] the length, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… door gleams, smoky with fire and drops of myrrh and barbarian perfumes." Also [sc. attested is] Aguieus, the pointed pillar by courtyard doors, sacred to Apollo, or the god himself. Pherecrates in Krapataloi [writes]: …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… he is clearly against giving a salary to soldiers whose "barbarian" manners appear immediately, since they try to steal the garlic Dicaeopolis has brought for himself. For other allusions to the violent, often bloody …Matched in noteshighmedium