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[306] κοτύλη, the acetabulum of Roman and modern anatomy; the socket, sufficiently like a shallow cup, by which the head of the femur is articulated to the pelvis. Compare the use of “κοτυληδών” of the cuttle-fish's suckers in Od. 5.433 (also of the acetabulum in Ar. Vesp. 1495).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 1495
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