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Headword: Geneias
Adler number: gamma,142
Translated headword: beard
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Means] the hairs. [sc. But neuter] geneion ["chin"] [means] the place, the part of the body.
"Our of his bushy beard flowed springs of fountain water."[1]
Search in [the entry on] aponoia ["senselessness"].[2]
The growth of hair above the lips is called a "moustache" [mustax], but that below a "beard" [pappos].[3]
Greek Original:
Geneias: hai triches. Geneion, ho topos, to meros tou sômatos. ek de daskiou geneiados krounoi dierrainonto krênaiou potou. zêtei en tôi aponoia. hoti hê tou anô cheilous trichôsis legetai mustax, to de katô pappos.
Notes:
[1] Sophocles, Trachiniae 13-14 (web address 1 below); see also kappa 2392.
[2] alpha 3460.
[3] Quoted from pi 264.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; medicine; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 July 2002@00:00:12.
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