Of Dionysiac.[1] "Trygonion ["Little turtle-dove"], a dedication of Salmakid Sabakoi."[2] That is, of courtesans.
[1] Genitive plurals, as determined by the quotation to follow.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.222.2. (For what comes immediately before it see
rho 92.) For Salmakis see LSJ s.v.: "a district in Halicarnassus [
alpha 1225], SIG 46.24 (v B.C.); also a fountain there, said to cause sexual weakness and associated with
Hermaphroditus, Str[abo] 14.2.16, Vitr[uvius] 2.8.11, Ov[id]
Met[amorphoses] 4.286): hence
σαλμακίδες ,
αἱ , a name for
ἑταῖραι (so Suid.) or effeminate men,
AP. 7.222."
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