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Headword: *gu/nnis
Adler number: gamma,504
Translated headword: she-male
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] man-woman, softy.[1]
"Where is the she-male from? What country?"[2]
"[He] sharing in evil wisdom and the atheistic words of Epicurus and cultivating she-males just for the pleasure of it, which that man praises, that youth and she-male."[3]
Greek Original:
*gu/nnis: a)ndro/gunos, malako/s. podapo\s o( gu/nnis; ti/s pa/tra; kakh\n sofi/an metiw\n kai\ tou\s a)qe/ous *)epikou/rou lo/gous kai\ gu/nnidas e)paskw=n ka)k th=s h(donh=s, h(\n e)kei=nos u(/mnei o( xlou/nhs te kai\ gu/nnis.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 136 (web address 1 below).
[3] Aelian fr. 10e Domingo-Forasté (10 Hercher); cf. delta 6, chi 349; also epsilon 3604.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 July 2002@14:17:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 3 September 2002@09:09:22.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 March 2011@05:09:00.
Catharine Roth (supplied link, updated reference) on 25 March 2011@23:42:10.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 12 June 2012@05:32:32.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 26 January 2014@08:55:44.
David Whitehead on 30 September 2015@04:08:54.
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