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Originally Posted by Patricia
I remember causing a small riot when translating a passage from the Lysistrata in class. The verb Bineo was used. The dictionary said that it was a colloquial verb for sex, so I translated it with an anglo-saxon colloquialism.
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Lidell and Scott (the "standard" Greek dictionary, for those unfamiliar with it) is very "Victorian" and coy about verbs like that
. Your translation was spot on, I'd say.