Σκύτινος
leather, leathern
Translated by Lee Fields13 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] couch(?)1 or hide.2
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and he built little toy 'leather' wagons." That is, he made wagons of hide.3
"On the head [the Mossynoikoi wore] leather helmets, in the Paphlagonian style, with a knot of hair in the middle shaped just like a tiara."4
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and he built little toy 'leather' wagons." That is, he made wagons of hide.3
"On the head [the Mossynoikoi wore] leather helmets, in the Paphlagonian style, with a knot of hair in the middle shaped just like a tiara."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκύτινος· κοίτη ἢ δέρμα. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ἁμαξίδας τε σκυτίνας εἰργάζετο. τουτέστι δερματίνας ἁμάξας ἐποίει. ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ κράνη σκύτινα, οἷά περ Παφλαγονικά, κρώβυλον ἔχοντα κατὰ μέσον ἐγγυτάτω τιαροειδῆ.
Betacode
*sku/tinos: koi/th h)\ de/rma. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: a(maci/das te skuti/nas ei)rga/zeto. toute/sti dermati/nas a(ma/cas e)poi/ei. e)pi\ th=| kefalh=| kra/nh sku/tina, oi(=a/ per *paflagonika/, krw/bulon e)/xonta kata\ me/son e)gguta/tw tiaroeidh=.
Notes (4)
- 1It is unclear which of the many senses of
koi/th (see LSJ s.v.) is needed here. ↩ - 2Greek
de/rma , animal skin, rarely of human skin, but can also be used of tree bark (LSJ). Hence in his translation of Aristophanes, Clouds 880 (see next note), Jeffrey Henderson translates the present headword,sku/tinos , as "balsawood". ↩ - 3Aristophanes, Clouds 880, with scholion. In his commentary on the line K.J. Dover writes "What 'leather carts' are, no one has succeeded in explaining or imagining, unless a cart with leather traces could be so described", and emendation (e.g. to the
suki/nas , fig-wood, suggested by S.A. Naber) may be the answer; but see the preceding note. ↩ - 4Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13; already at kappa 2488. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 13 Mar 2022
- cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
- more for notes — David Whitehead
- deleted link — Catharine Roth
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation and notes; added keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Lee Fields