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Headword: *sabakw=n
Adler number: sigma,4
Translated headword: of Sabakoi
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Dionysiac.[1] "Trygonion ["Little turtle-dove"], a dedication of Salmakid Sabakoi."[2] That is, of courtesans.
Greek Original:
*sabakw=n: *dionusiakw=n. trugo/nion, *sabakw=n a)/nqema *salmaki/dwn. toute/stin e(tairw=n.
Notes:
[1] Genitive plurals, as determined by the quotation to follow.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.222.2 (Philodemus). (For what comes immediately before it see rho 92.) For Salmakis see LSJ s.v.: "a district in Halicarnassus [alpha 1225], SIG 46.24 (v B.C.); also a fountain there, said to cause sexual weakness and associated with Hermaphroditus, Str[abo] 14.2.16, Vitr[uvius] 2.8.11, Ov[id] Met[amorphoses] 4.286): hence salmaki/des, ai(, a name for e(tai=rai (so Suid.) or effeminate men, AP. 7.222."
Keywords: definition; gender and sexuality; geography; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 12 November 2002@19:03:48.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 13 November 2002@00:04:27.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 13 November 2002@03:12:45.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 3 May 2011@07:44:32.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 19 June 2011@06:37:36.
Catharine Roth (betacode typo) on 20 June 2011@21:41:54.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 5 January 2022@18:00:02.
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