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Headword:
*)icu/n
Adler number: iota,397
Translated headword: waist
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the loin.[1]
"[...] on the seashore, chilled in hoofs and loins."[2] That is, the lower back. And elsewhere: "you used to strike, sweet-sounding cicada, a strain more delightful than the tortoise, through your slender waist, in solitary places."[3]
Greek Original:*)icu/n: th\n o)sfu/n. e)p' h)i+o/ni yuxo/menon xhla/s te kai\ i)cu/as. toute/sti th\n r(a/xin. kai\ au)=qis: e)/krekes eu)ta/rsois di' i)cu/os, a)xe/ta, molpa/n, te/ttic, oi)ono/mois terpno/teron xe/luos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 5.231, where
i)cui= occurs. The present headword, accusative case, must be quoted from somewhere else (perhaps
Theocritus,
Idylls 25.246).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.255.4-5 (
Erycius).
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.213.3-4 (
Archias).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 May 2006@01:07:50.
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