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Headword:
Hustrichis
Adler number: upsilon,693
Translated headword: bristle-whip
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A whip [made] out of pigs' hairs.
Aristophanes [writes]: "has the bristle-whip invaded you in the sides with a great army and laid waste[1] your back?." There is also a wild animal [called]
u(strixi/s; it has a pig's hairs which, when being pursued, it fires out like javelins onto the pursuers.
Hustrichis: hê ex hueiôn trichôn mastix. Aristophanês: môn hustrichis eisebale soi eis tas pleuras pollêi stratiai kadendrotomêse to nôton; esti de kai hustrichis thêrion, trichas echon huos has en tôi diôkesthai exakontizei kata tôn diôkontôn.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Peace 746-7 (web address 1), with scholion.
Both this entry and the preceding one,
upsilon 692 (q.v.), create confusion between the words
u(/stric (porcupine, the animal) and
u(strixi/s (the whip); see LSJ under both words.
[1] Literally, cut down the trees; cf. under
alpha 840.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; imagery; medicine; military affairs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 August 2010@10:45:55.
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