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Headword:
Anaxuridas
Adler number: alpha,1993
Translated headword: pants
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] trousers, breeches,[1] or thick and unworn[2] sandals.
"Although [he saw that]
Theodosius' belt had been loosened, the one holding up his pants around his private parts."[3]
Anaxuridas: phiminalia, brakia, ê ta bathea kai abata hupodêmata. kaiper tôi Theodosiôi eklelumenon ton himanta, ton amphi ta aidoia tas anaxuridas deonta.
Notes:
The headword, accusative plural, has the same or similar glossing in other lexica. It must be quoted from somewhere -- possibly the quotation given, but more probably
Herodotus 1.71.2: see the ancient glosses thereto.
[1] cf.
phi 460.
[2] 'Unworn' (
abata) is a corruption of 'royal' (
basilika).
[3]
Procopius,
Secret History 1.20 (web address 1), Belisarius (cf.
beta 233) catches his wife Antonina with his adopted son
Theodosius in a basement room; cf. Kaldellis (7). On Antonina and
Theodosius, see
epsilon 671 note.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
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Keywords: biography; children; clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 May 2001@12:21:09.
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