μέταυλος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: attribut. to <b class="b3">θύρα</b> (Ar., Lys., Plu.), also substantivized f. <b class="b2">the door that opens from the (outside) court, or from the living of the men, towards the back rooms</b> (opposite <b class="b3">ἡ αὔλειος θύρα</b> <b class="b2">the outside door</b>), in Vitr. (6, 7, 5) of a corresponding corridor;<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">μέσαυλος</b> (E., Ph. [v. l. <b class="b3">-λιος</b>, Vitr.), <b class="b3">μέσσαυλος</b> (<b class="b3">-ον</b>) [[the inner court where the cattle were put for the night]] (Hom., A. R. 3, 235); <b class="b3">μεσαύλη</b> f. [[court inside the houses]] (pap. VIp; reading not quite certain).<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: Att. <b class="b3">μέταυλος</b> indicates as hypostasis either <b class="b3">ἡ μετ</b>' <b class="b3">αὑλήν</b> (<b class="b3">θύρα</b>), i. e. the court behind the (outward) court, or <b class="b3">ἡ μετ</b>' <b class="b3">αὑλῆς</b> (<b class="b3">μετ</b>' <b class="b3">αὑλῶν θῦρα</b>), i. e. the door in the middle of the court (between both courts); the meaning, which changed with the organisation of the house, cannot be settled without exact knowledge of the plan of the house, cf. the explanations by Wistrand Eranos 37, 16ff.; the etymological analysis is accordingly uncertain. On <b class="b3">μεσο-</b> for older <b class="b3">μετα-</b> Wackernagel Syntax 2. 242. -- Hom. <b class="b3">μέσσαυλος</b> seems however to stand for <b class="b3">τὸ μέσον</b> or (<b class="b3">εν</b>) <b class="b3">μέσσῳ αὑλῆς</b> and "what belongs to the middle of the court" or "what is in the middle of the court", i. e. <b class="b2">middle of the court, inner of the court</b>, cf. Risch IF 59, 19f.; it should then be separated from <b class="b3">μέταυλος</b>. In A. R. 3, 235 ep. <b class="b3">μέσσαυλος</b> may have been influenced by the later <b class="b3">μέσαυλος</b>; late <b class="b3">μεσαύλη</b> followed the simplex.