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Headword:
*)arqre/mbola
Adler number: alpha,3944
Translated headword: arthrembola
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Names of torture-instruments; [so called] from dislocating the joints [exarthroun] of one who is subjected [emballomenon].
Greek Original:*)arqre/mbola: o)no/mata basanisthri/wn: para\ to\ e)carqrou=n to\n e)mballo/menon.
Notes:
Fuller entry in
Hesychius. Latte there cites, as source, a passage in Gregory of Nazianzus' speech
In praise of the Maccabees; and indeed the headword itself is surely quoted from
4 Maccabees 8.13
LXX.
LSJ s.v. gives references both for this meaning and for a more benign, medical one ("instrument of setting limbs", in Galen).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2001@06:56:52.
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