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Headword: *perikaw=s
Adler number: pi,1173
Translated headword: burningly, fierily
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] erotically/passionately. "[He] being burningly disposed for the woman".[1]
Greek Original:
*perikaw=s: e)rwtikw=s. perikaw=s th=s gunaiko\s e)/xwn.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the adverb relating to the adjective perikah/s. LSJ s.v. gives several instances of it in the sense illustrated here.
[1] Müller, following Boissonade, attributed this quotation to Eunapius of Sardis, due to his use of the word in a less vulgar sense elsewhere (Müller, FHG 109 vol. 4 p.56).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; imagery; women
Translated by: John Mulhall on 16 October 2011@11:05:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 October 2011@03:57:47.
William Hutton (tweaked tr., typo) on 17 October 2011@09:47:48.
David Whitehead on 25 September 2013@07:29:48.

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