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Headword: Βαπτά
Adler number: beta,96
Translated headword: dyed
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Bridegrooms used to wear dyed cloaks so there was displayed a token of the seduction.[1] Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "Nor [will you be able] to deck out [your bride] with the riches of varicolored dyed cloaks."[2] ["Varicolored] meaning differently-colored.
Greek Original:
Βαπτά: βαπτὰ ἱμάτια ἐφόρουν οἱ νυμφίοι πρὸς τὸ φαίνεσθαι τεκμήριον τῆς φθορᾶς. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ: οὔθ' ἱματίων βαπτῶν δαπάναις κοσμῆσαι ποικιλομόρφων. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑτεροχρόων.
Notes:
[1] For this meaning of the noun φθορά see LSJ s.v., 4.
[2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 530 (see web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; gender and sexuality; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 April 2002@08:59:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 April 2002@09:38:59.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Corrected typos) on 21 January 2006@17:32:23.
David Whitehead (modified keywords; cosmetics) on 22 January 2006@04:13:27.
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