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Headword: *falla/kion
Adler number: phi,44
Translated headword: phallakion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning an] improvised poem, sung for a phallus.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the name] Phalaikos/Phalaecus.[2]
Greek Original:
*falla/kion: poi/hma au)tosxe/dion, e)pi\ tw=| fallw=| a)|do/menon. kai\ *fa/laikos.
Notes:
[1] cf. phi 51, where this neuter noun, there in the plural, is slightly different (and more common). Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius phi32, where Theodoridis notes that 'poem' is sometimes part of the headword (probably incorrectly, he thinks).
[2] A Phocian general and dynast of the mid-C4 BCE, mentioned by Aeschines, Diodorus and others. See generally C.J. Tuplin in OCD4 Phalaecus.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 January 2008@14:14:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 19 January 2008@05:58:40.
David Whitehead on 4 December 2013@03:44:39.
David Whitehead on 6 August 2014@10:31:39.

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