Skip to content

Search the Suda

Browse Topics Random About

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Ἀνιεμένη κόλπον · baring (her) bosom (α 2457) · Suda

Letters

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near α2457

α2453wretched
α2454effortlessly, sweatlessly
α2455effortlessly, sweatlessly
α2456unstable
α2457baring (her) bosom
α2458having loosened
α2459victimless (offering)
α2460having devoted
α2461gave up

Suda/Α alpha/α2457

← Previous entry,α2456 Next entry,α2458 →

Ἀνιεμένη κόλπον

baring (her) bosom

Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 Jul 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

clothing
definition
epic
ethics
gender and sexuality
women
+1
- zoology

1 note · 24 words

Translation

[Meaning] drawing back and letting fall the peplos, stripping the garment down to the breasts.¹
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "[them] skinning goats".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀνιεμένη κόλπον· ἀνέλκουσα καὶ ἀναχαλῶσα τὸν πέπλον, ἀπογυμνοῦσα τὸ κατὰ τοὺς μαστοὺς κόλπωμα. καὶ αἶγας ἀνιεμένους.

Betacode

*)anieme/nh ko/lpon: a)ne/lkousa kai\ a)naxalw=sa to\n pe/plon, a)pogumnou=sa to\ kata\ tou\s mastou\s ko/lpwma. kai\ ai)=gas a)nieme/nous.

Notes (1)

[1] The headword phrase is from Homer, Iliad 22.80 (web address 1: Hecuba begs her son Hector not to fight Achilles), and this is scholiastic comment on it.
2Homer, Odyssey 2.300 (web address 2).

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

αι20Αἶγας ἀνιεμένους(them) skinning goatsSee under a)nieme/nh.

Neighbouring entries

α2455Ἀνιδρωτίeffortlessly, sweatlessly α2456Ἀνίδρυτοιunstable α2457Ἀνιεμένη κόλπονbaring (her) bosom α2458Ἀνιένταhaving loosened α2459Ἀνιέρειοςvictimless (offering)

Revision history4 revisions · last 18 Jul 2015

18 Jul 2015Revised — David Whitehead
14 Mar 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Sep 2002cosmetics — Catharine Roth
8 Mar 2001rearranged notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Jul 2000Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀνιεμένη κόλπον (Adler number alpha 2457), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 3 Jul 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/2457

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗