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Headword:
*)axaii/+nh
Adler number: alpha,4681
Translated headword: doe, hind
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The female deer.
In the
Epigrams: "and the dappled hide of a flayed stag."[1]
And
Babrius [writes]: "coaxing the hind with such words, she [the fox] persuaded her to go twice into the same death."[2]
*)axaii/+nh: h( e)/lafos. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ sku/tos a)mfido/rou stikto\n a)xaii/+new. kai\ *ba/brios: toiau=ta kwti/llousan th\n a)xaii/+nhn e)/peisen e)lqei=n di\s to\n au)to\n ei)s a(/|dhn.
Notes:
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.165.2 (
Phalaecus); already at
alpha 1721. Here the masculine form is used (in the genitive). Find further excerpts from this epigram, a dedication to Dionysus, at
beta 140,
beta 548,
theta 379,
theta 613,
iota 72,
kappa 2115,
kappa 2279,
lambda 360,
rho 223, and
sigma 1193. On the epigram's ascription, see
alpha 1721 note.
[2]
Babrius 95.87-8; again at
kappa 2304.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 January 2001@02:01:46.
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