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Headword:
*gu=a
Adler number: gamma,470
Translated headword: limbs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] appendages,[1] or feet of the body.
"Limb-wasted, leaving these tokens of revels, he blames the beauty of a tender [sc. but] unbending [woman]."[2]
Greek Original:*gu=a: me/lh, h)\ po/das tou= sw/matos. guiotakh\s de\ lipw\n ta/de su/mbola kw/mwn me/mfetai a)stre/ptou ka/llei+ qhlute/rhs.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.230, where a version of this neuter accusative plural headword (
gui=a rather than
gu=a) occurs. Similar material in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.71.9-10 (Paul the Silentiary), the poet's love interest is ever unreceptive. For the adjective cf. under
alpha 1444.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine; poetry; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 July 2002@12:41:13.
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