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Headword: Ῥοπαλίζει
Adler number: rho,229
Translated headword: wields the club
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Moves and turns [a penis] like a club.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] ῥοπαλισμός , [meaning] the tension of the penis, the erection.[2]
Greek Original:
Ῥοπαλίζει: κινεῖ καὶ στρέφει ὡς ῥόπαλον. καὶ Ῥοπαλισμός, ἡ τάσις τοῦ αἰδοίου, ὁ τέτανος.
Notes:
The headword is evidently quoted from somewhere.
cf. generally rho 228.
[1] Same glossing in Photius and Hesychius.
[2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 553, where this term occurs in the accusative plural; see at tau 367.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 September 2010@08:03:40.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 22 September 2010@23:37:24.
David Whitehead (modified keywords) on 23 September 2010@03:21:44.
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