α4434Αὐλαία
curtain
That which is hung alongside the stage. Hyperides uses it in his [speech] Against Patrokles. Polybios [writes]: "hearing all these things through the curtain the king was laughing." And elsewhere: "he took a rope from…
Αὐλαία· τὸ τῆς σκηνῆς παραπέτασμα. κέχρηται δὲ αὐτῷ Ὑπερίδης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Πατροκλέους. Πολύβιος· ἀκούων ταῦτα πάντα διὰ τῆς αὐλαίας ἐγέλα ὁ βασιλεύς. καὶ αὖθις· ὁ δὲ λαβὼν ἐκ τῆς…