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Headword: Alochos
Adler number: alpha,1367
Translated headword: spouse
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] wife.[1]
From Euripides' Andromeda: "take me, o stranger, whether you want a serving woman or a spouse."[2]
Greek Original:
Alochos: gametê. Euripidou ex Andromedas: agou me, ô xene, ei te dmôïd' etheleis eit' alochon.
Notes:
[1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.36, where the headword occurs (accusative case).
[2] Euripides fr.132 Nauck, quoted in an anecdote (about a male homosexual relationship) in Diogenes Laertius 4.29.
Keywords: definition; epic; gender and sexuality; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 June 2000@06:45:32.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added note and keywords.) on 5 June 2000@01:26:51.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note; added keyword) on 23 February 2001@06:19:45.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; cosmetics) on 31 May 2010@07:39:18.
David Whitehead on 9 February 2012@08:07:36.
David Whitehead on 13 June 2015@07:17:33.
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