08-27-2009, 12:50 PM
Quote:Also "stolidio" should be interpreted as "small stole".
It was Paul M-S who I posted what I referred to above about the origin of the word Spolas. Below is a copy of something he put up. A possible connection between the "small" stolidio and the "little thick leathern(skutinos) chiton"?
Quote:....There was a second onamastikon reference to 'spolas'( which is a Doric form of the Attic 'Stolas' : root stello/stole = dress, generic garment) - viz:
Hesychios lexicon and it's very interesting:
(sigma 1542) spolas: 'khitoniskos bathus skutinos, ho bursinos thorax '
"little thick leathern(skutinos) chiton, the leathern (bursinos) thorax" ...and there was then a discussion of the difference between the greek words, which are essentially skin/hide and leather, and probably refer back to the libyan skin garments as well as the 'leather thorakes'
Paul M. Bardunias
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