Χλοῦναι
greenwood-men
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] robbers, who lie in ambush in the greenwood [xloh=| ].1 Also [sc. attested in the singular] "greenwood", [meaning] solitary, violent, wicked, difficult.2
And the eunuch. "A castrated and androgynous man (if we should grant that he be a man), one who is enfeebled in soul through the study of Epicurus and has become womanish. Having borne a torch before Stratocles in Athens, a eunuch and a she-male, bewitched and bound as if in an unbreakable chain."3
And the eunuch. "A castrated and androgynous man (if we should grant that he be a man), one who is enfeebled in soul through the study of Epicurus and has become womanish. Having borne a torch before Stratocles in Athens, a eunuch and a she-male, bewitched and bound as if in an unbreakable chain."3