Στλεγγίς
strigil
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Translation
[Meaning] a scraper.1 Also [sc. attested is the related participle] stleggizo/menos ['being strigilled'], [meaning] being scraped off.2 Aristophanes in Old Age [writes]: "if it is necessary to follow little boys, holding a ball and strigil."3 In the Banqueters: "this is not a strigil nor a flask."4 *stleggi/s ['strigil'] is also the word for an ornament of wrought gold, which goes around women's heads.
"And the strigil is among the things that exist for a particular purpose and among the the things not for a particular purpose. Some things are for one particular purpose alone, and no one would use them for another purpose, for instance [sc. one uses] sight only for the purpose of seeing; but some things one might use also for some purpose that they were not created for. Thus one might use a strigil not only for the purpose of scraping, but also for the purpose of drawing up water."5
"And the strigil is among the things that exist for a particular purpose and among the the things not for a particular purpose. Some things are for one particular purpose alone, and no one would use them for another purpose, for instance [sc. one uses] sight only for the purpose of seeing; but some things one might use also for some purpose that they were not created for. Thus one might use a strigil not only for the purpose of scraping, but also for the purpose of drawing up water."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στλεγγίς· ἡ ξύστρα. καὶ στλεγγιζόμενος, ἀποξυόμενος. Ἀριστοφάνης Γήρᾳ· εἰ παιδαρίοις ἀκολουθεῖν δεῖ, σφαῖραν καὶ στλεγγίδ' ἔχοντα. Δαιταλεῦσιν· οὐδέ ἐστιν αὕτη στλεγγὶς οὐδὲ λήκυθος. καλεῖται στλεγγὶς καὶ χρυσοῦν ἔλασμα, τὸ περὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ τῶν γυναικῶν. ἡ δὲ στλεγγὶς τῶν πρὸς τί ἐστι καὶ τῶν οὐ πρὸς τί. τὰ μὲν πρὸς ἕν τι μόνον ἐστί, καὶ οὐκ ἄν τις αὐτοῖς πρὸς ἄλλο τι χρήσαιτο, ὥσπερ τῇ ὄψει πρὸς μόνον τὸ ὁρᾶν· τὰ δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἄλλο τι, πρὸς ὃ οὐ πέφυκε, χρήσαιτο ἄν τις. τῇ γοῦν στλεγγίδι οὐ πρὸς τὸ περιξύεσθαι ἄν τις χρήσαιτο μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀρύσασθαι.
Betacode
*stleggi/s: h( cu/stra. kai\ stleggizo/menos, a)pocuo/menos. *)aristofa/nhs *gh/ra|: ei) paidari/ois a)kolouqei=n dei=, sfai=ran kai\ stleggi/d' e)/xonta. *daitaleu=sin: ou)de/ e)stin au(/th stleggi\s ou)de\ lh/kuqos. kalei=tai stleggi\s kai\ xrusou=n e)/lasma, to\ peri\ th=| kefalh=| tw=n gunaikw=n. h( de\ stleggi\s tw=n pro\s ti/ e)sti kai\ tw=n ou) pro\s ti/. ta\ me\n pro\s e(/n ti mo/non e)sti/, kai\ ou)k a)/n tis au)toi=s pro\s a)/llo ti xrh/saito, w(/sper th=| o)/yei pro\s mo/non to\ o(ra=n: ta\ de\ kai\ pro\s a)/llo ti, pro\s o(\ ou) pe/fuke, xrh/saito a)/n tis. th=| gou=n stleggi/di ou) pro\s to\ pericu/esqai a)/n tis xrh/saito mo/non, a)lla\ kai\ pro\s to\ u(/dwr a)ru/sasqai.
Notes (5)
- The first paragraph of this entry essentially = Photius, Lexicon sigma541 Theodoridis, and a scholium to Plato, Hippias Minor 368C. It is attributed to Aelius Dionysius (sigma35) by Cohn and Erbse. Other references in Theodoridis, and below.
cf. sigma 1025. - 1cf. ps.-Herodian, Philhetaerus 125, Hesychius sigma1884. ↩
- 2cf. Hesychius alpha6061, Synagoge alpha1733, Photius alpha2367. ↩
- 3Aristophanes fr. 139 Kock, 145 Kassel-Austin (141.2a Edmonds). The quotation contains the headword in the accusative singular. ↩
- 4Aristophanes fr. 207 Kock (and Edmonds), 214 Kassel-Austin. Where the Suda and Photius have
au(/th ('this'), the scholium to Plato (followed by Erbse and Edmonds) hasau)th=| ('for her'), yielding a different translation: "there is neither strigil nor flask for her." Kock printsau)tw=| ('for him'), which Adler also notes as an emendation of Bergk. ↩ - 5Derived from Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Aristotle's Topics 455.21-26 (on Aristotle, Topics 145a12). ↩
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- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
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- Translated — William Hutton