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Headword: Akanthias
Adler number: alpha,798
Translated headword: akanthias, prickly thing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Not a type of cicada, but an epithet of a cicada, from its chirping in thistles. Just as "the chirper" [is] not a type of cicada, but an epithet from its chirping.
Greek Original:
Akanthias: ouk eidos tettigos, all' epitheton tettigos apo tou êchein en akanthais. hôsper kai ho achetas ouk eidos tettigos, all' epitheton apo tou êchein.
Notes:
(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in some mss.)
See again alpha 4689, and cf. also tau 437. The entries have a polemical tone; some authorities did, evidently, define the akanthias as a distinct "type" of cicada: see Aelian, On the Nature of Animals 10.44, cited in LSJ s.v.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 January 2000@22:57:57.
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David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 14 February 2001@05:06:20.
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