*fuh/n: bla/sthsin, au)/chsin h(liki/as. kurth\ de/ soi pe/fuke kai\ tw=n o)rqi/wn ei)=nai dokou/ntwn h( fuh\ tw=n daktu/lwn.
[1] =
Synagoge phi215; cf. ps.-Herodian (
Epimerismi 1471),
Etymologicum Magnum 801.30. Perhaps, as Adler asserts, from commentary to
Homer,
Iliad 1.115, where the headword appears in this form (accusative singular), though the
scholia to that passage (Agamemnon describes the qualities in which he thinks his wife does not surpass the captive woman Chryseis) tend to interpret the word as 'beauty' or 'character'.
[2] Quotation (consisting of two iambic trimeters) unidentifiable; Adler reports that Bernhardy and Sternbach attributed it to George of
Pisidia. The word translated as "fingers" could also mean "dates" (as in the fruit of the date-palm).
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