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Headword:
Lochmê
Adler number: lambda,715
Translated headword: thicket, undergrowth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A saying: "you're carrying a lot of undergrowth". Meaning you should be depilated. This Phormion was hairy and had swarthy buttocks.
Greek Original:Lochmê: paroimia: lochmên pollên phoreis. anti tilthêsêi. houtos de ho Phormiôn trichôdês ên kai pugas melainas eiche.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 800, where the quoted phrase occurs (and Phormion is mentioned in line 804; comment from the
scholia to both of these lines). The reference is specifically to pubic hair: see Henderson ad loc.
Not (despite what is implied here) taken up by the paroemiographers.
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Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 23 June 2009@00:32:07.
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