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Headword:
*(ropali/zei
Adler number: rho,229
Translated headword: wields the club
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] moves and turns [a penis] like a club.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] r(opalismo/s, [meaning] the tension of the penis, the erection.[2]
Greek Original:*(ropali/zei: kinei= kai\ stre/fei w(s r(o/palon. kai\ *(ropalismo/s, h( ta/sis tou= ai)doi/ou, o( te/tanos.
Notes:
The headword, a single word in the Greek, must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested.
cf. generally
rho 228.
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius (rho444) and
Photius (rho158 Theodoridis).
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 553, where this term occurs in the accusative plural; see at
tau 367.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 September 2010@08:03:40.
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