ἐπιγουνίς: Difference between revisions
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ἄμμες δὲ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες → and we shall be better by far | we shall be sometime mightier men by far than both | sometime we shall become much better than you | so we shall be, and braver far
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English (LSJ)
ίδος, ἡ,
A part above the knee, great muscle of the thigh, taken as a sign of strength and vigour, κεν . . μεγάλην ἐπιγουνίδα θεῖτο he would grow a stout thigh-muscle, Od.17.225; οἵην ἐπιγουνίδα φαίνει 18.74,cf. Theoc. 26.34, Alciphr.3.19, Philostr.Im.2.24; prob. in this sense in A.R.3.875. II. = ἐπιγονατίς, knee-pan, Hp.Art.70,77, Philostr.Gym.35; knee, Arat.254,614.
