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Headword: Κατακλινής
Adler number: kappa,579
Translated headword: reclining
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Leaning on a couch. "He happened then to be reclining and behaving effeminately."[1]
Greek Original:
Κατακλινής: ἐπὶ κλίνης ἀνακείμενος. ὁ δὲ ἔτυχε τότε κατακλινὴς ὢν καὶ μαλακιζόμενος.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
LSJ gives three senses for it ("bed-ridden", "sloping", "hanging down"), none of them the one glossed here.
cf. generally kappa 580.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 July 2008@02:03:27.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (notes; more keywords) on 11 July 2008@03:02:53.
David Whitehead (tweaked n.1) on 23 March 2011@06:57:12.
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