[Meaning] a door high up on the wall.
*)orsoqu/rh: qu/ra e)n u(/yei tou= toi/xou.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius omicron525 Theodoridis.
The
o)rsoqu/rh in the great hall of Odysseus' palace features in the battle between Odysseus and the Suitors there:
Homer,
Odyssey 22.126, 132, 333 (web address 1). This is the gloss of the
scholia at line 126, but the etymology of the word was much discussed by ancient commentators (some connecting it with
omicron 629) and remains uncertain. See generally LSJ s.v., inc. the obscene usage in
Semonides (
sigma 446).
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