Θρᾶνος
bench
Translated by Marcelo Boeri7 Jan 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] footstool. Hence also [sc. the term] qrani/ths .1 Aristophanes [writes] in Plutus: "instead of a bench, [to have] the head of only a broken pot." That is, [of only] a jug.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θρᾶνος· ὑποπόδιον. ἔνθεν καὶ θρανίτης. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ἀντὶ δὲ θράνους κεραμίου μόνου κεφαλὴν κατεαγότος. τουτέστι στάμνου.
Betacode
*qra=nos: u(popo/dion. e)/nqen kai\ qrani/ths. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a)nti\ de\ qra/nous kerami/ou mo/nou kefalh\n kateago/tos. toute/sti sta/mnou.
Notes (2)
- 1One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches of a trireme. See theta 454, theta 455. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 545, with scholion. Actually, Aristophanes' text reads
sta/mnou (a jug or bottle for racking off wine), which the Suda gives as the gloss, rather thankerami/ou mo/nou . See web address 1. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- 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.
- θ454Θρανίτης λεώςtop-bench folkMeaning 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.
- θ483Θρῆνυςstool[Meaning a] foot-support.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 6 Jan 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, link, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri