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Headword:
*kasauri/ois
h)\
*kasalbi/ois
Adler number: kappa,450
Translated headword: in knocking-shops or in whorehouses
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, in the brothels.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[he] licking up the detestable dew in knocking-shops".
*kasauri/ois h)\ *kasalbi/ois: toute/sti toi=s pornei/ois. *)aristofa/nhs: e)n kasauri/ois lei/xwn th\n a)po/ptuston dro/son.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Knights 1285 (web address 1 below), with scholion; on Ariphrades (
alpha 3940). For 'dew' in this sense of
secreta muliebria see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 145 #179.
The two dative plurals in the present headword phrase are alternatives for the single one that
Aristophanes wrote (which was probably
kaswrei/oisi).
cf. generally
kappa 446,
kappa 447,
kappa 448.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 March 2008@07:24:28.
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