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Headword: *)androsa/qwn
Adler number: alpha,2189
Translated headword: man-pricked, man-root
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] possessing large genitals.

Greek Original:

*)androsa/qwn: mega/la e)/xwn ai)doi=a.

Notes:

Same entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha1770) and elsewhere. The headword is reckoned to come from Attic Comedy (Comica adespota fr. 932 Kock, now 486 Kassel-Austin).
See again under alphaiota 88. The word was used especially of Priapus.

Reference:

For the sa/qh component of the word see generally J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 109-110 and index s.v.

Keywords: comedy; definition; gender and sexuality; medicine; religion
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 June 2000@11:23:12.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (modified headword; added note, bibliography, keywords) on 6 March 2001@10:46:01.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 1 March 2012@06:09:45.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 28 December 2014@08:47:38.
David Whitehead (coding) on 12 July 2015@04:17:48.

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