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Headword:
Hippos
Adler number: iota,577
Translated headword: horse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Dexippus [writes]: "and his horse was trained, even when ridden without a rein, to be driven very fast, and to stand very calmly while he was walking forward, and to turn very smoothly while he was stepping aside, so as to move round and make a circle".[1]
"Horses are the origin of wasps, but bulls of bees".[2]
Interpretation of a dream: seeing black horses is wholly not good, but the sight of white horses [brings] a report of messengers.[3]
Breeding horses appears to be expensive, which is also connected to the Laconian curse. For indeed the Lakedaimonians did classify this as a curse. It is this: 'may house and rampart[4] get you, and may your horse and your wife take a lover', all these things being expensive and damaging.[5]
Greek Original:Hippos: Dexippos: ho de hippos autôi êskêto ara kai aneu hênias elaunomenos te ôkutata pheresthai kai badên proïontos praotata histasthai kai ekklinontos, hopôs perioisetai kai kuklôsetai, eukampestata epistrephein. hoti hippoi sphêkôn genesis, tauroi de melissôn. lusis oneirou: hippous melainas ou kalon pantôs blepein. hippôn de leukôn opsis angelôn phasis. hoti to hippous trephein dokei dapanêron einai. hoper kai têi Lakônikêi prosezeuktai katarai. kai gar dê toutous hoi Lakedaimonioi en kataras ethesan merei. esti de hautê: oikodoma se laboi kai ambola, ho de hippos kai ha guna toi moichon echoi: hôs toutôn pantôn dapanêrôn ontôn kai epizêmiôn.
Notes:
[1] This first quotation is from P. Herennius
Dexippus (
delta 237): FGrHist 100 F26.
Dexippus, a 3rd-cent. AD historian, wrote an account of Alexander’s successors, a history from legendary times to his own, and a history of the Gothic wars of his own time. We do not know from which work the quotation comes.
[2] From
beta 453, and cf.
sigma 1733, end. These words form most (only a connecting
ga/r is missing) of a hexameter in Greek:
Nicander,
Theriaca 741 =
Greek Anthology, epigrams 9.503b. For the same notion about horses and wasps, see
Aelian,
On the nature of animals 1.28.
[3] Two iambic trimeters; from the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychos (
alpha 4251).
[4] cf.
alpha 1532 (
a)mbola\s gh=), with cross-reference to
delta 22 (
dakno/menos).
[5] The same curse is quoted at
delta 22 (
dakno/menos) and
omicroniota 66 (
oi)kodomh/).
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 15 July 2002@03:28:41.
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