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aeide-thea · 2 years

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genuinely don't even know what tone i want to say this in, but:

in the course of attempting to better inform myself about ancient greek vocabulary for genitals (as one does), have made the discovery that perseus' english-to-greek word search turns up 0 results for 'vagina'—because relevant terms are listed instead under pudenda muliebria.

#anyway i want the greek equivalent of j.n. adams #google suggested the maculate muse but that seems to be a disquisition on specifically *comedic* terms #altho depressingly its section—genuinely i mistyped 'sextion' there originally‚ which‚ perfect‚ no notes—on 'the male organs' includes both #'proper and euphemistic words'; whereas the section on 'the female organs' plunges directly into 'euphemistic terminology'#i mean i think this reflects the range of terms which appear *in the plays* rather than a more‚ well‚ holistic lacuna in the language #(broad-er lacuna? truly there are so many beautiful possibilities. ...said the young man reverently to the madam.)#(sorry.)#but still.#anyway. if any of you know more‚ please do pipe up! but like. my ignorance aside this also is just a post abt how fucking wild it is #that perseus STILL has this shit filed under latinate euphemisms in 20-fucking-22 #and yeah i get that they just‚ like‚ digitized what was there. but. come on. gimme an epexegetical 'vagina.' make the thing fucking usable.#(...joke redacted.)#ktema terpnon #language

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