Βόστρυχος
lock
Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Dec 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] braid of women's hair.
In the Epigrams: "tell for whom you will still braid your hair into a lock."1
Aristophanes [writes]: "for great passion for these locks excites me entirely."2
"To anoint his hair and arrange it in locks -- immediately prompting everyone [to say] that this man had orgied with the goddess of the Chians and with the Ithyphalli."3
In the Epigrams: "tell for whom you will still braid your hair into a lock."1
Aristophanes [writes]: "for great passion for these locks excites me entirely."2
"To anoint his hair and arrange it in locks -- immediately prompting everyone [to say] that this man had orgied with the goddess of the Chians and with the Ithyphalli."3