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Headword: Φανοστράτη
Adler number: phi,78
Translated headword: Phanostrate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Feminine.
Apollodorus in the [treatise] On the Courtesans at Athens says that her nickname was Lousegate, because she used to stand at the door picking off lice.[1]

Greek Original:

Φανοστράτη: θηλυκόν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν ἑταιρῶν ταύτην φησὶν ἐπονομάζεσθαι Φθειροπύλην, ἐπειδὴ ἐπὶ τῆς πύλης ἑστῶσα ἐφθειρίζετο.

Note:

[1] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 22.56, where Sinope (see under sigma 465) and Phanostrate are mentioned: web address 1. Besides Apollodorus (FGrH 244 F209) see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.586A (13.50 Kaibel).

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@03:34:44.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 September 2002@12:57:45.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link) on 10 December 2003@16:50:57.
David Whitehead (augmented note; another keyword) on 4 September 2008@08:54:26.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 July 2011@09:53:02.

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