ὁρκάνη
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], ἡ,
A = ἑρκάνη, ἕρκος, enclosure, fence, ὁ. πυργῶτις A.Th.346 (lyr.) ; prison, E.Ba.611 (troch., pl.), cf. Sch.Theoc.4.61, EM632.25.
German (Pape)
[Seite 378] ἡ, = ἑρκάνη, ἕρκος, Umhägung, Umzäunung; ὁρκάνα πυργῶτις, Aesch. Spt. 328; εἰς σκοτεινὰς ὁρκάνας πεσούμενος, Eur. Bacch. 611.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὁρκάνη: ἡ, = ἑρκάνη, ἕρκος (ἐκ τοῦ ἔργω, εἴργω) ἀκανθῶδες περίφραγμα, φραγμὸς καὶ αἱμασιά, ὁρκ. πυργῶτις Αἰσχύλ. Θήβ. 346˙ θηρευτικὸν δίκτυον ἢ σαργάνη, Εὐρ. Βάκχ. 611, ἐν τῷ πληθ. Πρβλ. Σχόλ. εἰς Θεόκρ. 4. 61, Ἐτυμολ. Μέγ. 632. 25. - Καθ’ Ἡσύχ.: «ὁρκάνη˙ εἱρκτή, δεσμωτήριον. ἔνιοι κρεμάστραν. ἄλλοι σαργάνην. οἱ δὲ φραγμόν».
