ὑπήνη
From LSJ
σιγᾶν ἄμεινον ἢ λαλεῖν ἃ μὴ πρέπει → it's better to keep silence than to say what's not appropriate (Menander)
English (LSJ)
ἡ, prop.
A hair on the upper lip (which is the first to grow, cf. sq.), moustache, distd. from πώγων, Eub.100, cf. Phot., Suid.: generally, beard, A.Fr.27; τὴν ὑ. ἄκουρον τρέφων Ar.V.476 (lyr.); μολύνων τὴν ὑ. Id.Eq.1286 (troch.); ἕλκοντες ὑπήνας letting the beard grow long, trailing beards, Id.Lys.1072; ἄναξ ὑπήνης, of one with a huge beard, Pl.Com.122. 2 in Arist.HA518b18, it seems to mean the upper lip, καὶ τὴν ὑ. καὶ τὸ γένειον δασὺ ἔχειν, cf. Theoc.20.22.
