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mat-maker”; Poll. 10.166, 183; Phot, κ 159 κάνναι· πλεκτά τινα έκ καλάμων,
“kannai: objects woven out of reeds”). Cf. κάνουν, “reed basket” (e.g. Ar. Ach.
244 with Olson 2002 ad loc.); κάνης (“reed mat”; third-declension and thus
impossible here) at Sol. fr. 72c Ruschenbusch (used by women at a festival);
Crates Com. fr. 14 ό κάνης δέ τής κοίτης ύπερέχειν μοι δοκεΐ (“The kanes
appears to me to be getting the best of the bed”; glossed as meaning that what
is less important is preferred to what is more important); IG Γ 1455.16 κανά
σχοίνινα Ιιεννέα (“nine reed mats made of rushes”; in a temple inventory from
Aegina); Suda κ 307 κάνης· ό ψίαθος.111
κόρημα See fr. 167 n.
A κιβωτός (included in catalogues of household items at Thphr. Char. 10.6)
is a wooden (e.g. Arist. Met. 1044d26, 1049d19-20; Thphr. HP 5.7.5 (diminutive))
storage chest with a hinged lid that might be equipped with a lock (D. 25.61).
κιβωτοί were used to hold e. g. clothing (Ar. V. 1056), documents (Ar. Eq. 1000),
money and the equivalent (Lys. 12.10-11; cf. fr. 123 n.), professional supplies
(Ar. Pl. 711-12; belonging to Asclepius as divine physician) and weapons (Aen.
Tact. 29.4, 8). Cf. Pritchett in Pritchett-Pippin 1956. 220-5; Richter 1966a. 72-6;
Andrianou 2009. 111-12.
λύχνον Included in a catalogue of items to be prepared for a dinner-party
at Antiph. fr. 150.2 and in a catalogue of kitchen supplies at Antiph. fr. 71.1
(both plural); in the singular in a list of vessels at Axionic. fr. 7.2. For Athenian
lamps in this period, see Howland 1958; Olson on Ar. Pax 688-92.
fr. 219 K.-A. (205 K.)
οϋς δ’ ούκ αν ε'ίλεσθ’ ούδ’ αν οίνόπτας προ τού,
νυνί στρατηγούς < — > ώ πόλις πόλις,
ώς ευτυχής εί μάλλον ή καλώς φρονείς
2 στρατηγούς Ath. : στρατηγούς <έχομεν> Hermann : στρατηγοΐς <χρώμεθ’>
Dobree : στρατηγήσουσιν; Austin ώ πόλις πόλις Ath. : ώ πόλις Σ : om. Σ Suda

111 Α ψίαθος is a mat for sleeping or reclining on the ground at Ar. Lys. 921-2, 925
(used for lying down to make love); Ra. 567 (among the furnishings of an inn;
Dover 1993 ad loc. mistakenly offers “cups” as a gloss); Philem. fr. 26.1; Hyp. fr.
165 (among the tools of a prostitute’s trade); Arist. HA 559b2-4 (used to recline on
while drinking), but is properly made of bulrushes or similar plants rather than of
reeds. In practice, the two terms may not always have been sharply distinguished;
cf. Thphr. HP 9.4.4 ψιάθους έκ φοινίκων πεπλεγμένας (“psiathoi woven out of
palm-fronds”).