Lispê: tôi tonôi hôs kistê. Apollônios de oxunei hôs psilê. hê tetrimmenê kai leia. hoi de thêridion lepton sphodra. kai hoi ta ischia leptoi. lispous kalousi kai tous huph' hêmôn kaloumenous striphous astragalous. kai Lispopugoi. hoi leioi tên pugên.
The headword (quoted from
Aristophanes: see below) is nominative feminine singular of the adjective
li/spos. (The nominative masculine singular is not attested.)
Except for the last sentence (on which see n. 6 below), the entry conforms, with a significant omission, to the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 826. For many of the definitions proffered here there is no support outside these assertions. For a discussion of the original passage in
Frogs, and for the cutting in two of astragaloi, see
lambda 604 and the reference to
Plato there.
[1] This word is not found in the surviving texts of Apollonius Dyscolus.
[2] The scholiast assigns this definition to
Callistratus, but no such reference is known. The Commentary on
Frogs 826b defines our headword simply as 'very small',
leptota/th .
[3] The haunches were called
li/sfoi in Attic Greek according to
Etym. Gen. 121. But there was confusion over this otherwise unattested word, for
Tzetzes believed it the Attic form of our
li/spos (on Hesiod,
Works and Days 156) and
Moeris took it as Attic for 'without buttocks' (p.245P.).
[4] See
alpha 4250, astragalos.
[5] This word is not attested elsewhere in Greek, and the reading in the
scholia strufnou\s is inappropriate in meaning, 'harsh'.
[6] See
lambda 604 for the use of this idea for Athenian sailors. It also applied to gay men.
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