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Headword:
*)apomw/moka
Adler number: alpha,3442
Translated headword: I have sworn off
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning I have taken an oath against women.[1] Also [sc. attested is the related participle]
a)pomwmoko/tas ["them having sworn off"], [meaning them] having renounced. "And men as lovers parted the thighs of many boys, who have sworn off [sc. surrendering to them], near the end of their youth."
Aristophanes in
Birds [sc. writes this].[2]
*)apomw/moka: a)nti\ tou= o(rkwmosi/an pro\s gunai=kas pepoi/hka. kai\ *)apomwmoko/tas, a)potacame/nous. pollou\s d' a)pomwmoko/tas pai=das pro\s te/rmasin w(/ras diemh/risan a)/ndres e)rastai/. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 903 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. generally
omicron 595.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 705-6 (web address 2), here abridged; cf.
delta 915,
tau 346. On the verb
diamhri/zein see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 153.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; law; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 February 2002@16:43:01.
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