There's an amusing new entry on the Old Curmudgeon's blog (Laudator temporis acti) on the Homeric epithet noted in the rubric: -- and on suggested new English coinages: "bathycolposcope" and "bathycolposcopy":
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co ... words.html
βαθύκολπος
βαθύκολπος
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)