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Headword:
Ψήκτρα
Adler number: psi,66
Translated headword: curry-comb
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A tool, with which we brush horses.[1]
In the Epigrams: "and a sawn iron-bound brushing of a curry-comb ...[2] And again: "and a curry-comb for drawing through the hair of horses and the whip for their backs, bold mother of speed."[3] And, "[He] spurned the curry-comb made of reed."[4]
[Note] that the curry-comb is also called δεῖνος .[5]
Greek Original:Ψήκτρα: ἐργαλεῖον, δι' οὗ τοὺς ἵππους κνήθομεν. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: καὶ πριστὸν ψήκτρης κνῆσμα σιδηρόδετον. καὶ αὖθις: καὶ ψήκτραν ἵππων ἐρυσίτριχα τήν τ' ἐπὶ νώτων μάστιγα, ῥοίζης μητέρα θαρσαλέην. καί, ψήκτραν ἄκιτιν ἀπέπτυσεν. ὅτι ὁ ψηκτὴρ καὶ δεῖνος λέγεται.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Phrynichus 127.17.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.233.6.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.246.5-6 (read
ῥοίζου ).
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.307.3, quoted more fully at
phi 120 (read
δονακῖτιν ).
[5] From
delta 345, q.v.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 December 2005@00:10:15.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmeticules) on 29 December 2005@03:51:39.
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