Μαχλάδας
wanton women
Translated by Nick Nicholas30 Apr 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] harlots.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μαχλάδας· πόρνας.
Betacode
*maxla/das: po/rnas.
Notes
- The headword is given in the accusative plural, and must be quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities include Artemidorus 4.11, Greek Anthology 9.622 ("and if horniness moves you towards wanton women for hire, you'll take and not give when you bathe there"), and -- regarded as the source of the present entry: see below -- Gregory of Nazianzus, Moral Poems col. 903: "for our law is to not even look at wanton women".
Same entry in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu152 Theodoris, and add to them the Lexicon of Gregory of Nazianzus' Poems (Coislin ms.)
For related words see mu 306, mu 307, mu 308.
Linked from3 entries
- μ306Μάχλοςlewd[Meaning] licentious, profligate. From the [verb] klw= ["I break"] [comes] klo/s, and by addition of the syllable ma [is made] ma/klos, and by a shift [of consonant] ma/xlos. "[Since] she had previously lived a lewd…
- μ307Μαχλοσύνηlewdness, wantonness[Meaning] propensity downwards, madness for/of women. The word [is] Hesiodic: for he says of the daughters of Proetus, "because of their loathsome wantonness he destroyed the tender flower."
- μ308Μαχλῶντεςacting wantonly[Meaning they] acting as prostitutes.
Neighbouring entries
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- Translated — Nick Nicholas