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Headword:
*koi=la
Adler number: kappa,2535
Translated headword: bags
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the things underneath the eyes,[1] and like apples on the face.[2]
Greek Original:*koi=la: ta\ u(poka/tw tw=n o)fqalmw=n, kai\ oi(=on e)pi\ tou= prosw/pou mh=la.
Notes:
The headword is neuter plural of the adjective
koi=los, used substantively; literally 'hollows'. See LSJ s.v., IV, for its application to other bodily cavities, e.g. the ventricles of the heart.
[1] =
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1187 Theodoridis (s.v.
ku/la); cf.
Hesychius kappa4492 (again s.v.
ku/la);
Synagoge kappa501;
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 472;
scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.38. See also
kappa 2545,
kappa 2674.
[2] The term 'apples' (
mh=la) is often applied to the bags under the eyes by medical writers, e.g. Galen 19.115.15.
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 May 2008@06:35:27.
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