Στεφανοπώλης

garland-seller

Translated by David Whitehead17 Dec 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

4 words

Translation

A man selling garlands.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Στεφανοπώλης· ὁ τοὺς στεφάνους πωλῶν.

Betacode
*stefanopw/lhs: o( tou\s stefa/nous pwlw=n. 

Notes

  1. This masculine noun is not much attested outside lexica and grammars (e.g. Pollux 7.199): see LSJ s.v. Garland-selling was more usually women's work. (An individual instance was perhaps the statuesque Phye, in Herodotus's story of Peisistratos' attempted coup in Athens [1.60]; Hdt. himself seems to have believed she was Athenian, but the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia [14.4] reports a rival tradition that she was 'a Thracian garland-seller'.)

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Revision history4 revisions · last 26 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. modified and expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
  3. expanded note; modified keywords — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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