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ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν μαχέσαιτο· χέσαιτο γάρ, εἰ μαχέσαιτο → fighting is what she can't do, for if she should fight she would shit
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English (LSJ)
άδος, ἡ,
A lurking in a hole, ἀραχναίη, σίλφη, AP9.233 (Eryc.), 251 (Even.), etc.: of the bear, lying torpid in its cave, Theoc.1.115, Hymn.Is.46; metaph., of a shy maiden (opp. πόρνη), φωλάδα παρθενικήν AP11.34 (Phld.); ἀγκύρας φωλάδας, of anchors buried in the sand, ib.10.2 (Antip.Sid.). 2 as Subst., a mollusc that makes holes in stones, Lithodomus, Ath. 3.88a: Hsch. has φωλαΐδες, from a confusion of φωλάδες and φωλίδες. II full of holes or lurking places, πέτρη Nonn.D.1.163; ὕλη 6.270, 22.116; ἔκθορε φωλάδος κοίτης, of a lion, Babr.82.3. III φωλάς· εἶδος νόσου (i.e. = φωλεία 1), Suid.
