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Headword:
*)orqoti/tqios
Adler number: omicron,580
Translated headword: upright-breasted
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A term applicable to] a virgin with upright breasts. Hence[1] also [comes the term] "suckling", [meaning] the [child] nursing at the breast.[2]
Greek Original:*)orqoti/tqios: h( parqe/nos h( o)rqou\s tou\s titqou\s e)/xousa. o(/qen kai\ e)piti/tqion, to\ u(poma/zion.
Notes:
The primary headword, a very rare adjective, is almost certainly generated by
Procopius,
Secret History 10.2, on Theodora:
parqe/non tina\ kai\ to\ dh\ lego/menon o)rqo/titqon ou)=san.
[1] i.e. from the second, commonplace element in the word.
[2] cf.
epsilon 2705,
epsilon 2707.
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 24 November 2002@20:21:47.
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