ithyphallic

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

Adjective

Ancient-Rome historical specifically broadly

(historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.

Japanese Meaning

古代ローマにおいて、バッカス（酒神）に関連する行列で運ばれた、勃起状態の性器に関する、またはその様相を示す形容詞

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The museum's new exhibit features an ithyphallic statue that sheds light on Dionysian rituals in ancient Rome.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

博物館の新しい展示には、古代ローマのディオニュソスの儀式を解明する、行列で担がれた勃起した男性器を表す像が展示されている。

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Sense（1）

(historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.

Sense（2）

(specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.

Ithyphallic verse, which, because it consists of one periodic order, ought to have all pure trochees, and admits no other foot, except a tribrach, […] and that scarcely in the last place, because the rhythm ought to be more remiss at the end, is used chiefly by lyric poets in place of an epode.

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Sense（3）

Phthas, the inscription in phonetic hieroglyphs Ptah, in close-fitting dress, with the feet joined together, leaning on the platform consisting of four steps[…]. Also dwarfish and ithyphallic as in the temple at Memphis[…].

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Sense（4）

(by extension) Lascivious, obscene.

[I]t is specially desirable to be able to discern the difference […] between the "εὐνῇ καὶ φιλότητι" or "φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ μιγῆναι" of the Iliad and Odyssey, and an ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men.

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