Ξάνιον

xanion

Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝16 Feb 2000Vetting: high3 revisions

17 words

A comb, which women carry in their snoods, in which [there is] gold jewelry on the head.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ξάνιον· κτένιον, ὃ φοροῦσιν αἱ γυναῖκες ἐν τοῖς ἀναδήμασιν, οἷς κόσμος χρυσοῦς ἐπὶ κεφαλῆς.

Betacode

*ca/nion: kte/nion, o(\ forou=sin ai( gunai=kes e)n toi=s a)nadh/masin, oi(=s ko/smos xrusou=s e)pi\ kefalh=s.

Also -- and more intelligibly -- in Photius xi6 Theodoridis (who does not have the phrase 'in which'; instead, a pair of glosses; cf. Pollux 5.96).
The headword is attested only in grammars and lexica.

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