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Headword: *(upografo/menos
Adler number: upsilon,468
Translated headword: painting under
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
“Anointing his face and painting under[1] his eyelids, and competing with the concubines in beauty and hairstyle; and completely following female habits.”[2] The story [is] about Sardanapalus.[3]
Greek Original:
*(upografo/menos: e)gxri/wn de\ to\ pro/swpon kai\ tou\s o)fqalmou\s u(pografo/menos pro/s te ta\s pallaka\s a(millw/menos peri\ ka/llous kai\ plokh=s: to/ te su/mpan gunaikei/w| e)/qei xrw/menos. peri\ *sardanapa/lou o( lo/gos.
Notes:
[1] See also Pollux 5.102, Aelius Dionysius, and Photius s.v. u(po/gramma, Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica s.v. u(pogra/mmata; for the same verb in other senses see upsilon 466.
[2] Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F2 (= Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De virtutibus et vitiis 1.329.20-22); also at sigma 121.
[3] On Sardanapalus, besides sigma 121, see also sigma 122 and under alpha 396, alpha 2032, kappa 497, kappa 2046, omicron 1037, pi 2913 and tau 131.
Keywords: biography; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 7 June 2008@21:42:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified keywords; other tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 June 2008@04:16:54.
David Whitehead on 27 November 2013@08:07:11.

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