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Headword:
Βάναυσος
Adler number: beta,92
Translated headword: artisan, mechanic, banausos
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Any craftsman working by a fire. For a furnace is a
baunos.[1]
Also, "[Caecilius] ordered the artisans from the
agora to bring missiles and stack them up outside at the foot of the wall."[2]
Βάναυσος: πᾶς τεχνίτης διὰ πυρὸς ἐργαζόμενος. βαῦνος γὰρ ἡ κάμινος. καί, τοῖς ἐκ τῆς ἀγορᾶς βαναύσοις φέρειν προσέταξε βέλη καὶ παραβάλλειν ἔξω παρὰ τὸν θεμέλιον τοῦ τείχους.
Notes:
On banausoi cf.
beta 93, and see generally (e.g.) Alison Burford,
Craftsmen in Greek and Roman Society (London 1972) pp.25-6 and index.
[1] Cf.
beta 194. This etymology is found in the
Etymologicum Magnum 187.38.
[2]
Polybius 1.40.9, on the battle of Parnormus (250 BC).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 July 2001@03:42:55.
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