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Headword:
*(/umnidi
Adler number: upsilon,117
Translated headword: in Hymnis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: From a nominative hymnis. [The genitive is] hymnidos.
Greek Original:*(/umnidi: a)po\ u(/mnis eu)qei/as. u(/mnidos.
Notes:
A cryptic entry as it stands, but almost certainly to be connected with
alphaiota 364 and
alphaiota 377 (and similar entries in other lexica:
Photius s.vv.
ai)tou/menos and
ai)th/sasqai and
Hesychius s.vv.
ba/khlos and
parufi/s), i.e. from a citation of
Menander's lost comedy of that name (Kassel-Austin, PCG VI.2 pp. 227-230).
Hymnis was the name of a hetaira (
epsilon 3265,
epsilon 3266); she reappears in one of Lucian's
Dialogues of the Courtesans.
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 3 June 2007@18:30:23.
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