Πυρραῖς γένυσι

Notes

1. = Synagoge pi813, Photius pi1567 Theodoridis, and, with the variant spelling pursai=s ('ruddy') for purrai=s, Hesychius pi4466. From commentary to Euripides, Phoenician Women 32, where the phrase occurs (with the alternative spelling found in Hesychius) in reference to the facial hair of an adolescent. The phrase shows up again in a fragment of Euripides' lost play Meleager [Author, Myth] (fr. 537 Nauck), where it also refers to a youthful man's facial hair.