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Echinos
Adler number: epsilon,4010
Translated headword: sea-urchin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "What sort of Nereus gives his foresighted girls to the tossing of the sea-urchins in the deep, in such a way that they flee from the effects of the storm before the storm?"[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: "before two urchins could come together in friendship, one from the sea, the other from dry-land"; in reference to dissimilar [things].[2]
Greek Original:Echinos. poios de Nêreus tôn echinôn tois salois probleptikas didôsin en buthôi koras, hopôs phugôsi pro zalês ta tês zalês. kai paroimia: prin ke duo echinoi es philian elthoien, ho men ek pelagous, ho de ek chersou: epi tôn anomoiôn.
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Keywords: daily life; ethics; imagery; mythology; poetry; proverbs; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 11 February 2008@21:24:53.
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