Ὑσσάκων
of cunts
Translated by David Whitehead6 Dec 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] of the female genitals.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑσσάκων· τῶν γυναικείων αἰδοίων.
Betacode
*(ussa/kwn: tw=n gunaikei/wn ai)doi/wn.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1001, with scholion; again under upsilon 683.
For discussion of the word's precise connotations -- 'obscure but unquestionably vulgar' -- see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 132 #115, cf. 133 #116.
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- Revised — Catharine Roth
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