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(Greek, _moichos_ “an adulterer.”) -- Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, xi.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
fbharjo commented on the word moichos
Hugh's of St. Victor's Dindimus gives etymological derivation word for (machine) mechanics as Greek for 'sowing wild oats' μοίχος, adulterer instead of μηχαγη, machine. "From 'moechus' we call 'mechanical art' any object which is clever and most delicate and which , in its making or operation , is beyond detection, so that beholders find their power of vision stolen from them when they cannot penetrate the ingenuity of the thing." - Martin of Laon ,9th Century notes on Greek by a monasic , Scholica graecarum glossarum
from James Taylor's Translation of the Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor page 191 note #64
October 16, 2011
biocon commented on the word moichos
Gk. moichós = 1. adulterer, paramour (especially paramour of a sodomite); 2. idolatrous person (Greek-English Lexicon, Liddell & Scott, 9th ed.).
October 16, 2011