Κατακλινής

reclining

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Jul 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning someone] leaning on a couch. "He happened then to be reclining and behaving effeminately."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κατακλινής· ἐπὶ κλίνης ἀνακείμενος. ὁ δὲ ἔτυχε τότε κατακλινὴς ὢν καὶ μαλακιζόμενος.

Betacode

*kataklinh/s: e)pi\ kli/nhs a)nakei/menos. o( de\ e)/tuxe to/te kataklinh\s w)\n kai\ malakizo/menos.

The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
LSJ gives three senses for it ("bed-ridden", "sloping", "hanging down"), none of them the one glossed here.
cf. generally kappa 580.
1Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.) ↩

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