[Meaning] the curved part of the leg.
*knh/mh: to\ koi=lon tou= ske/lous.
Comparable entry, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (1179), but not precisely paralleled elsewhere. ps.-
Zonaras refers to the "roughness of the leg". Others appear to have identified this body-part with the calf (
i)gnu/a) instead (
Etymologicum Magnum "the back of the leg";
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 784), and there is confusion as to whether the
a)ntiknh/mion is the shin or the calf. Identifying the
knh/mh with the calf would explain why the Suda calls it curved.
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