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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