[Meaning] the animal [of that name].
But among Corinthians [the word means] the female genitalia. From which [comes] a proverb: 'you seem about to sell 'piggie' in Acrocorinth.' Meaning you seem to be about to earn a wage in Corinth. For [there are] many courtesans there.[1]
*xoi=ros: to\ zw=|on. para\ *korinqi/ois de\ to\ gunaikei=on ai)doi=on. e)/nqen kai\ paroimi/a: *)akrokorinqi/a e)/oikas xoiropwlh/sein. a)nti\ tou= e)/oikas misqarnh/sein e)n *kori/nqw|: pollai\ ga\r e)kei= e(tai=rai.
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 773 (web address 1), where this usage occurs; [
Plutarch],
Proverbs which the Alexandrians Used 1.92;
Anonyma Dorica fr. 22 Kassel-Austin, with a text (from
Zenobius) which eliminates 'Akrocorinth'. See generally LSJ s.v.
xoi=ros, 2, and already at
alpha 1003.
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