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Headword:
Lochmas
Adler number: lambda,713
Translated headword: thickets
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] densely-planted places.
Aristophanes [writes]: "I have armpits denser than a thicket, as was agreed."[1] The women grew out [their] hair, so that, whenever they voted, they would look like men.[2] Also, "having rubbed oil upon [her] entire body during the day"[3] she warmed herself in the sun in order to become tanned like a man.[4]
Lochmas: sumphutous topous. Aristophanês: echô tas maschalas lochmês dasuteras, hôsper ên xunkeimenon. ethrepsan hai gunaikes trichas, hin', hotan cheirotonôsi, dokôsin andres einai. kai, aleipsamenê to sôm' holon di' hêmeras echliaineto pros ton hêlion hôste melanthênai hôs anêr.
Notes:
The headword, evidently quoted from somewhere, is the accusative plural of
lo/xmh (
lambda 715,
lambda 716).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 60-61 (with
kaqa/per for the Suda's
w(/sper).
[2] From the
scholia thereto.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 63 (web address 1). See further, next note.
[4] From the
scholia to line 64 (paraphrasing it). NB: the transmitted text of the line has the verb
e)xliaino/mhn, but editors have adopted Bergk's emendation to
e)xraino/mhn.
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Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 15 June 2009@03:43:30.
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