Τροχός
wheel
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Translation
The wheel was a wooden thing on which slaves were tied as punishment.1 Aristophanes [writes]: "if any would-be general does not assist, or any slave ready to desert, may he be twisted on the wheel and whipped".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τροχός· ξύλινόν τι ἦν ὁ τροχός, ἐν ᾧ δεσμούμενοι οἱ οἰκέται ἐκολάζοντο. Ἀριστοφάνης· εἴ τις στρατηγεῖν βουλόμενος μὴ ξυλλάβῃ, ἢ δοῦλος αὐτομολεῖν παρεσκευασμένος, ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ ἕλκοιτο μαστιγούμενος.
Betacode
*troxo/s: cu/lino/n ti h)=n o( troxo/s, e)n w(=| desmou/menoi oi( oi)ke/tai e)kola/zonto. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)/ tis strathgei=n boulo/menos mh\ culla/bh|, h)\ dou=los au)tomolei=n pareskeuasme/nos, e)pi\ tou= troxou= e(/lkoito mastigou/menos.
Notes (2)
- See also tau 1072, where the same two passages of Aristophanes are cited.
- 1From a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 875. ↩
- 2Aristophanes Peace 450-2. ↩
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