[Meaning] the hairs [sc. of the head].[1] "[She who is] cutting locks at the end from the head's tresses."[2]
*fo/bas: ta\s tri/xas. temou=sa krato\s bostru/xwn a)/kras fo/bas.
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is a feminine noun in the accusative plural; see
phi 558, and generally LSJ s.v.
fo/bh.
[1] The glossing substantive is the same form as the lemma; cf.
theta 500 and see generally LSJ s.v.
qri/c.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 449 (web address 1): Electra advises her sister Chrysothemis against leaving Clytemnestra's offerings on Agamemnon's tomb, urging her instead to cut off and leave locks of hair.
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