Adler ρ 166Ῥικνοῦσθαι to grow stiff, to dance suggestively
Translated by David Whitehead · 17 Sep 2010 · · 5 revisions
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1 note · 44 words Translation [Meaning] to be distorted, and to be altogether twisted in shape. But another meaning of
r(iknou=sqai is to become bent in an unseemly way, both in intercourse and in dancing, by bending the pelvis.
Sophocles in
Trackers [sc. uses it in this latter sense].
1 Greek original · Adler’s text Ῥικνοῦσθαι· τὸ διέλκεσθαι, καὶ παντοδαπῶς διαστρέφεσθαι κατ' εἶδος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ῥικνοῦσθαι τὸ καμπύλον γίνεσθαι ἀσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ συνουσίαν καὶ ὄρχησιν κάμπτοντα τὴν ὀσφύν. Σοφοκλῆς Ἰχνευταῖς.
Betacode *(riknou=sqai: to\ die/lkesqai, kai\ pantodapw=s diastre/fesqai kat' ei)=dos. le/getai de\ kai\ r(iknou=sqai to\ kampu/lon gi/nesqai a)sxhmo/nws kai\ kata\ sunousi/an kai\ o)/rxhsin ka/mptonta th\n o)sfu/n. *sofoklh=s *)ixneutai=s. Copy Greek Notes (1) Same entry in Photius (rho124 Theodoridis), from Aelius Dionysius ; similar ones elsewhere. For these two senses of the headword verb r(ikno/omai (denominative from r(ikno/s , rho 165 ) see LSJ s.v. 1 Sophocles fr. 316 Radt (contextless).↩ Revision history 5 revisions · last 10 Jan 2022 10 Jan 2022 expanded note with cross-reference — Catharine Roth 28 Oct 2013 Revised — David Whitehead 25 Aug 2011 tweaks — David Whitehead 18 Sep 2010 tweaked tr; more keywords — David Whitehead 17 Sep 2010 cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth 17 Sep 2010 Translated — David Whitehead
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