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Headword: *lordoume/nwn
Adler number: lambda,681
Translated headword: arching backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] moving. Because those who are copulating move [sc. in this way]. Aristophanes [writes]: "and presider over bodies arching backwards".
Greek Original:
*lordoume/nwn: kinoume/nwn. e)peidh\ oi( sunousia/zontes kinou=ntai. *)aristofa/nhs: lordoume/nwn te swma/twn e)pista/thn.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 10 (referring to a lamp), with scholion. The headword participle, genitive plural neuter, is extracted from the quiotation.
For this verb see already lambda 680; and cf. also lambda 678, lambda 679.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2007@08:26:01.
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