Συνθηματιαίους
bespoken, ordered
Translated by David Whitehead31 Jan 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning the ones] which we call contracted-for. Aristophanes [writes]: "for [I] must plait bespoken wreaths for men, twenty."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Συνθηματιαίους· οὓς ἡμεῖς λέγομεν ἐκδοτικούς. Ἀριστοφάνης· δεῖ γὰρ ἀνδράσι πλέξαι στεφάνους συνθηματιαίους εἴκοσι.
Betacode
*sunqhmatiai/ous: ou(\s h(mei=s le/gomen e)kdotikou/s. *)aristofa/nhs: dei= ga\r a)ndra/si ple/cai stefa/nous sunqhmatiai/ous ei)/kosi.
Notes (1)
- The headword, accusative plural of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation.
- 1Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 457-8, with scholion. The glossing word, otherwise unattested, is not in LSJ. (It is attested in a few Byzantine monastic works later than the Suda.) ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 2 Feb 2014
- tweaked tr; more keywords — David Whitehead
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- tweak, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead