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Headword:
*(etairi/striai
Adler number: epsilon,3273
Translated headword: courtesanizers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the so-called rubbers.[1]
Greek Original:*(etairi/striai: ai( kalou/menai triba/des.
Notes:
=
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon 987a 26;
Moeris 196.24;
Hesychius epsilon6489;
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2070 (cf. delta1689) -- all stemming from the use of the feminine nominative plural headword in
Plato,
Symposium 191E (web address 1).
See also Lucian,
Dialogues of the Courtesans 5.2, with scholion.
[1] Grammatically feminine, so women who rub, masturbate (themselves or each other). See Chantraine s.v.
tri/bw, and cf. under
omicron 169.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; philosophy; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 4 February 2008@07:02:04.
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