Θρανίτης λεώς
top-bench folk
Translated by Ryan Stone29 Feb 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning seafaring. He spoke of the whole from a part. For of those rowing, the ones at the top called thranites, those in the middle zygites, and those at the bottom thalamites.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θρανίτης λεώς· ἀντὶ τοῦ ὁ ναυτικός. ἐκ μέρους δὲ τὸ πᾶν εἶπε. τῶν γὰρ ἐρεττόντων οἱ μὲν ἄνω θρανῖται λέγονται, οἱ δὲ μέσοι ζυγῖται, οἱ δὲ κάτω θαλάμιοι.
Betacode
*qrani/ths lew/s: a)nti\ tou= o( nautiko/s. e)k me/rous de\ to\ pa=n ei)=pe. tw=n ga\r e)retto/ntwn oi( me\n a)/nw qrani=tai le/gontai, oi( de\ me/soi zugi=tai, oi( de\ ka/tw qala/mioi.
Notes
- From a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 162 (where the headword phrase occurs); cf. scholion on Thucydides 6.31.3.
See also theta 5 and theta 455 (and cf. more generally theta 451, theta 452, theta 453, theta 456).
Linked from6 entries
- θ5Θαλαμακεῖςhold-rowers, bottom-rank-rowersand [sc. also attested is] qala/maki ['for the hold-man'],, the man rowing in the bottom part of the trireme. The hold-rowers used to receive the least pay because they used smaller oars than the other three ranks of…
- θ451Θρανεύσεταιwill be tanned[Meaning he/she/it] will be stretched out. For a bench [is] the footstool where a hide is stretched out. "Your hide will be tanned." Aristophanes [writes thus] in Knights.
- θ452Θρανίδιονmini-bench, small bench[Meaning] a kind of stool.
- θ453Θρανίονrower's benchCertain low stools and footstools are called qra=nos and qra/nia (and one [is called] qrh=nus in the Poet); upon which those about to strangle themselves are hung kicking them [away]. Aristophanes [writes] in Frogs:…
- θ455Θρανίτηςthranite[Meaning] the one near the stern; zygite, the middle man; thalamite, the one near the prow.
- θ456Θρᾶνοςbench[Meaning a] footstool. Hence also [sc. the term] qrani/ths. Aristophanes [writes] in Plutus: "instead of a bench, [to have] the head of only a broken pot." That is, [of only] a jug.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 6 Jan 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented note, added keywords, set status — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ryan Stone