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From: Rainer Thiel <thielr@mailer.uni-marburg.de>
Subject: Re: Ancient Feminine Hygiene: Gynaikeion Rakon
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At 05:34 01.03.02, Patrick T. Rourke wrote:
>gunaikei/wn r(akw=3Dn, Suda Upsilon 166 Adler ("Hypatia").

This is taken from from Damascius' Vita Isidori (or Philosophical History)=
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much of which is preserved in Photios and (as DL has already said) in the=20
Suda. In the same context Photios reports Damascius' remark that PHULAKEI=3D=
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hoi Alexandreis ekaloun ta ekmageia t=F4n gunaikei=F4n molusm=F4n, hence=20
testifying to another term in use apparently in Egypt, but needing to be=20
explained to other Greek speakers.  The Suda has made another entry of it,=
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namely PHULA/KIA (IV 772, 23).

The story is in Damasc. Isid. frgg. 102--104, =A7 52 Zintzen, or in=20
Athanasiadi's new Greek-English edition 43 A--D (with good translation).

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