Lacertus

Japanese: lacertus
Lacertus

…Hippocrates used brachiōn together with pēchys to mean the forearm in his Treatise on Fractures and other works, but Aristotle, in his History of Animals, said that the arm brachiōn consisted of the shoulder, upper arm ankon, elbow, lower arm pēchys, and hand, showing the ambiguity of the meaning of brachiōn. In Latin, upper arm is lacertus, and lower arm is bracchium. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, in the passage where Apollo praises Daphne, it is written, "He praised her fingers, hand, lower arm bracchium, and upper arm lacertus, which was more than half exposed." …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "lacertus" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヒッポクラテスは《骨折論》その他でpēchysとともにbrachiōnをもっぱら前腕の意に用いたが,アリストテレスは《動物誌》に腕brachiōnは肩,上腕ankon,ひじ,前腕pēchys,手から成ると述べて,brachiōnの意のあいまいさをみせた。ラテン語で上腕はlacertus,前腕はbracchiumである。オウィディウス《転身物語》にアポロがダフネを賞するくだりで〈彼は(ダフネの)指と手と前腕bracchiumと半ば以上あらわになった上腕lacertusとを褒めた〉とある。…

※「lacertus」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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