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La "glabella medietas" di Filologia (Mart. Cap. II 132) ovvero le vicende di un aggettivo che diventò sostantivo
Marangoni, Claudio
2008
Abstract
In Nuptiae (II 132) Martianus Capella uses an apuleianism, the adjective glabellus, to define the glabrous part between the eyebrows (ubi pubem ciliorum discriminat glabella medietas), on which one of the Graces kisses Philologia. But in the apuleian passage (met. II 17) the word is only used about the feminal of Fotis, and so in latin there isn't a real specific term to describe the anatomic part between the eyebrows (infact the term intercilium is later and used by glossators, basing it on the translation of medical greek term μεσόφρυον). The word glabellus is noted beginning from the medieval commentaries of Martianus Capella until modern languages as substantive indicating this particular anatomic part.
Series
Polymnia: Studi di filologia classica
10
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Languages
it
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