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Headword:
*formi/sios
Adler number: phi,605
Translated headword: Phormisios, Phormisius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "She will pull up [her clothes] and show her Phormisios."[1] And this man was hairy. A reference, in riddle, to the female pudenda.
Greek Original:*formi/sios: a)naballome/nh dei/cei to\n *formi/sion. kai\ ou(=tos dasu\s h)=n. ai)ni/ttetai de\ to\ gunaikei=on ai)doi=on.
Notes:
For Phormisios see further
phi 606, and generally
beta 352.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 97 (web address 1), followed by comment from the
scholia there. On the names of actual persons, including Phormisios, to mean cunt see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven, 1975) 147-8.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2001@09:02:34.
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