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Headword: *)anieme/nh ko/lpon
Adler number: alpha,2457
Translated headword: baring (her) bosom
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] drawing back and letting fall the peplos, stripping the garment down to the breasts.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "[them] skinning goats".[2]
Greek Original:
*)anieme/nh ko/lpon: a)ne/lkousa kai\ a)naxalw=sa to\n pe/plon, a)pogumnou=sa to\ kata\ tou\s mastou\s ko/lpwma. kai\ ai)=gas a)nieme/nous.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase is from Homer, Iliad 22.80 (web address 1: Hecuba begs her son Hector not to fight Achilles), and this is scholiastic comment on it.
[2] Homer, Odyssey 2.300 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; definition; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 July 2000@21:01:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (rearranged notes; added keywords; cosmetics) on 8 March 2001@11:25:46.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 15 September 2002@01:18:37.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 14 March 2012@06:57:25.
David Whitehead on 18 July 2015@05:29:13.
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