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Headword: *borbo/ropin
Adler number: beta,391
Translated headword: filth-holed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. This "hole" means] cunt.[1] It also means genitals.
Greek Original:
*borbo/ropin: kh=pon. shmai/nei de\ kai\ to\ mo/rion.
Notes:
The headword adjective is in the accusative singular. Quoted from Hipponax (iota 588), it is transmitted variously as borbo/ropin (or borboro/pin) and, as here, borboro/phn. The eta form is orthodox (so e.g. LSJ s.v.), i.e. with the second half of the compound as o)ph/ "hole"; a technical case can be made for the iota form (see mu 1470, at n.6 there), which would require the translation "filth-faced", but the glossing seems to tell against that.
For borboros see in any event Henderson 192 #414.
[1] Literally "garden". For kh=pos in this sense (III in LSJ s.v.) see generally Henderson 135-6 #130.
Reference:
Henderson, Jeffrey. 1975. The Maculate Muse. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2003@00:08:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note; cosmetics) on 4 June 2003@04:22:10.
David Whitehead (recast and expanded notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 June 2012@03:39:57.

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