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Headword:
Apomômoka
Adler number: alpha,3442
Translated headword: I have sworn off
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning I have taken an oath against women.[1] Also [sc. attested is the related participle]
a)pomwmoko/tas ["them having sworn off"], [meaning them] having renounced. "And men as lovers parted the thighs of many boys, who have sworn off [sc. surrendering to them], near the end of their youth."
Aristophanes in
Birds [sc. writes this].[2]
Apomômoka: anti tou horkômosian pros gunaikas pepoiêka. kai Apomômokotas, apotaxamenous. pollous d' apomômokotas paidas pros termasin hôras diemêrisan andres erastai. Aristophanês Ornisin.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 903 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. generally
omicron 595.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 705-6 (web address 2), here abridged; cf.
delta 915,
tau 346. On the verb
diamhri/zein see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 153.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; law; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 February 2002@16:43:01.
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