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Headword: *purrai=s ge/nusi
Adler number: pi,3209
Translated headword: with ruddy jaws
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] with tawny hairs.
Greek Original:
*purrai=s ge/nusi: canqai=s qrici/.
Note:
= Synagoge pi813, Photius pi1567 Theodoridis, and, with the variant spelling pursai=s ('ruddy') for purrai=s, Hesychius pi4466. From commentary to Euripides, Phoenician Women 32, where the phrase occurs (with the alternative spelling found in Hesychius) in reference to the facial hair of an adolescent. The phrase shows up again in a fragment of Euripides' lost play Meleager [Author, Myth] (fr. 537 Nauck), where it also refers to a youthful man's facial hair.
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 14 September 2013@08:58:41.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 14 September 2013@11:47:37.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 September 2013@03:41:27.
David Whitehead on 24 October 2013@05:37:35.

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