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Headword:
Androgunos
Adler number: alpha,2177
Translated headword: androgynous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A word applied to] Dionysos, as one doing both active, male things and passive, female ones.[1]
Alternatively "effeminate", and hermaphroditic.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] a)/ndrogu/nwn, [meaning of men who are] weak, having women's hearts.[3]
Greek Original:Androgunos: ho Dionusos, hôs kai ta andrôn poiôn kai ta gunaikôn paschôn. ê anandros, kai hermaphroditos. kai Androgunôn, asthenôn, gunaikôn kardias echontôn.
Notes:
[1] Sexual intercourse, specifically, is envisaged here. For Dionysos in this regard see K.J. Dover,
Greek Homosexuality (London 1978) index s.v.
[2] From glosses on
Herodotus 4.67.2, where the nominative plural of the headword appears.
[3] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; this genitive plural is evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Proverbs 18:8
LXX, though there are other possibilities).
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 2 July 2000@12:01:58.
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