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[Meaning] paralytic.[1] "Bandy-legged" [blaisos] and "crooked" [rhaibos] are different: one [means] the feet are twisted from the knees, the other means the shins themselves [are twisted].[2]
"Often the blooming curving Acharnian ivy crowned his hair in the orchestras and on the stages."[3]
Also [sc. attested is] blaisopo/dhs ["bandy-footed one"], [referring to] a frog.[4]

*blaiso/s: paralutiko/s. diafe/rei blaiso\s kai\ r(aibo/s, o( me\n a)po\ tw=n gona/twn diestramme/nos tou\s po/das, o( de\ au)ta\s ta\s knh/mas. polla/kis e)n qume/lh|si kai\ e)n skhnh=|si teqhlw\s blaiso\s *)axarnei/ths kisso\s e)/reye ko/mhn. kai\ *blaisopo/dhs, ba/traxos.

[1] Same glossing in other lexica and grammars.
[2] Repeated at rho 72.
[3] Greek Anthology 7.21.3-4 (Simias); cf. alpha 4677, theta 556. On this epigram, an epitaph for Sophocles, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 513-514), and another excerpt at kappa 1272.
[4] Attested only here.

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)

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