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Headword:
Chelidonas
Adler number: chi,185
Translated headword: chelidon; Chelidon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A sort of fish.[1]
Chelidon is also a name for the [sc. sexual] part of women;[2] and the hollow of the hoof of horses; some also [apply it to] the same part of dogs; and a Peloponnesian silver coin. The [part of] a man called the
chelidon is that which is above the elbow, below the joint. And Chelidon is also said to be the ship which conveyed the men [going] into Massalia.[3] And [the name of] a certain soothsayer of old.
And [the name of]
Cleopatra's
kinaidos.[4]
Chelidonas: ichthus poios. legetai Chelidôn kai tôn gunaikôn to morion: kai to koilon tôn hippôn tês hoplês: enioi kai tôn kunôn to auto meros: kai nomisma de arguroun Peloponnêsiakon. kaleisthai de chelidona kai tou anthrôpou to anôthen tou ankônos, to kata tas kampas. legetai de Chelidôn kai hê naus hê tous eis Massa- lian diakomisasa. kai chrêsmologos de tis tôn palai. kai ho Kleopatras kinaidos.
Notes:
Same material, variously, in
Hesychius and elsewhere.
[1] A flying-fish, according to LSJ s.v., which should be consulted on the several impersonal meanings of the word
chelidon about to be listed.
[2] See on this J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 147.
[3] For Massalia see generally
mu 242.
[4] Already under
kappa 1634, q.v.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 December 2000@16:21:54.
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