Zenobius 5.67
To play "cities"
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English
Proverb
To play "cities"
Explanation
Cratinus mentions it in his Female Runaways. The "city" was a kind of board-game with counters. It seems to have been transferred from those playing with pebbles, on what are now called "countries," but were then called "cities."
Greek
Proverb
Πόλεις παίζειν
Explanation
μέμνηται ταύτης Κρατῖνος ἐν Δραπέτισιν· ἡ δὲ πόλις εἶδός ἐστι παιδιᾶς πεττευτικῆς. Καὶ δοκεῖ μετενηνέχθαι ἀπὸ τῶν ταῖς ψήφοις παιζόντων, ταῖς λεγομέναις νῦν χώραις, τότε δὲ πόλεσιν.
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