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Headword:
Ὦ
Λακιάδαι
Adler number: omega,62
Translated headword: o Lakiadai!, o Laciadae!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ["O Lakiadai!"] is said of seducers.[1] For Lakiadai [is] a deme of Attica,[2] where [there are] many radishes, which they used to use when humiliating those caught [sc. in the act]. And if these were not available they would use rolling-pins pushed up.
Greek Original:Ὦ Λακιάδαι: ἐπὶ τῶν μοιχῶν λέγεται. δῆμος γὰρ τῆς Ἀττικῆς οἱ Λακιάδαι, ἐν ᾧ ῥαφανῖδες πολλαί, αἷς ἐχρῶντο κατὰ τῶν ληφθέντων ἐνυβρίζοντες. καὶ στελεοῖς δὲ ἐχρῶντο μὴ παρουσῶν τούτων ἀναβάστοις.
Notes:
[1] Moichoi. See
mu 1354-1360.
[2] Paus. 1.37.2; J.S. Traill,
The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 49; D. Whitehead,
The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. Compare
pi 1683, where the name is misspelled.
K. Kapparis, "Humiliating the adulterer: the law and the practice in classical Athens", RIDA 43 (1996) 63-77
Keywords: botany; constitution; daily life; gender and sexuality; geography
Translated by: Benjamin Stevens on 9 April 2000@23:20:38.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and bibliography) on 20 September 2000@07:29:00.
David Whitehead (augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 26 February 2003@08:31:28.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 19 July 2004@16:55:46.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 August 2011@07:17:46.
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