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Headword: Λακωνικαί
Adler number: lambda,63
Translated headword: Laconians
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Men’s shoes. ‘Where [is] your prick, where your cloak, where your Laconians?’ Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazousai [says this].[1].
Also in [the] Epigrams: ‘And those Laconians fine-robed’.[2]
Greek Original:
Λακωνικαί: ἀνδρεῖα ὑποδήματα. ποῦ τὸ πέος; ποῦ χλαῖνα; ποῦ Λακωνικαί; Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Θεσμοφοριαζούσαις. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: τοί τε Λάκωνες ἐύ̈πεπλοι.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousai 142, with the gloss from the scholia there; see also the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 1158. Cf. pi 987.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.292.1-2, here misquoted: it should be "Lakonian robes", Λάκωνες πέπλοι . Cf. alpha 1357, mu 1136.
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; gender and sexuality; poetry
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 14 July 2002@05:39:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 July 2002@07:19:33.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-references) on 28 July 2009@01:20:30.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 July 2009@02:51:27.
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