Πόσθωνος

boy's, pecker's

Translated by Catharine Roth31 Jan 2013Vetting: high2 revisions

2 words

Translation

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Πόσθωνος.

Betacode
*po/sqwnos. 

Notes

  1. The headword, evidently quoted from somewhere but attested only here, is genitive singular of the masculine noun po/sqwn.
    The nominative -- from Aristophanes, Peace 1300 (web address 1) -- occurs with gloss in Hesychius pi3097 and Photius pi1114 Theodoridis: they say it is a colloquial word for a boy, from po/sqh (pi 2113 and note).
    In Lucian, Lexiphanes 12, the word refers to a man with a big po/sqh (web address 2).

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Revision history2 revisions · last 10 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded note; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

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