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Headword: Ὀθόνη
Adler number: omicron,80
Translated headword: fine linen
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Any light woven material.[1]
"... jokers and brutes all -- and they [the people of Tarsos] were more interested in their linens than Athenians were in wisdom."[2]
Greek Original:
Ὀθόνη: πᾶν τὸ λεπτὸν ὕφασμα. σκωπτόλαι τε καὶ ὑβρισταὶ καὶ δεδώκασι τῇ ὀθόνῃ μᾶλλον ἢ σοφίᾳ Ἀθηναῖοι.
Notes:
cf. omicron 79.
[1] Similarly glossed in Ps.-Herodian and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7; quoted also at sigma 689 and more fully at epsilon 3504.
Keywords: clothing; definition; geography; historiography; philosophy; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 October 2009@01:46:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 25 October 2009@05:20:46.
Catharine Roth (restored keywords) on 25 October 2009@11:35:07.
David Whitehead (restored the keyword I had added) on 25 October 2009@11:42:00.
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