κ337Κάπηλος
retailer, huckster
Some suppose [it] to be one [word] in place of another, as in the [quotation] from Sophocles: "much mud is stirred up from jars." Sophocles [is] prone to [use the word] phlo/s ["mud"]. However, wine is not mud. But…
Κάπηλος· ἓν ἀνθ' ἑνός τινες οἴονται εἶναι· οἷον ἐκ τοῦ παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ. πολὺς δὲ πηλὸς ἐκ πίθων τυρβάζεται. ὁ μὲν οὖν Σοφοκλῆς εὐεπίφορος ἐς τὸν πηλόν. ὁ μέντοι οἶνος οὐκ ἔστι…
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