[Meaning they] acting as prostitutes.
*maxlw=ntes: porneu/ontes.
Same or similar entry in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu155 Theodoridis. The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere, is masculine nominative plural of this present participle.
The verb
maxla/w (a variant of
maxleu/omai) is first attested as a present participle -- but in other cases -- in
Clement of Alexandria, e.g.
Paedagogus 3.3.21: "fathers often unwittingly have sex with a child acting as a prostitute or daughters acting wantonly, unaware of the children left as foundlings; and the power of this evil commingling reveals those who have been born that way, when they are men".
For related words see
mu 305,
mu 306,
mu 307.
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