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Headword:
Echenêïs
Adler number: epsilon,3991
Translated headword: ship-securer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of little fish, which is not eaten; it has the size of a gudgeon and 4 fins. Some use it for charms and lawsuits. It took the name from the [ability] to restrain ships in motion; it is also called naukrates ['ship-master']. Saint Basil speaks about it.[1]
[sc. also attested is the term] 'Naukratian fish'.[2]
Greek Original:Echenêïs: genos ichthudiou, ho estin abrôton: megethos d' echei kôbiou kai pterugas d#. chrôntai de tines autôi pros philêtra kai dikas. eilêphe de to onoma apo tou echesthai tôn theousôn nêôn: ho kai naukratês kaleitai. ho hagios Basileios peri toutou phêsin. Naukratitês ichthus.
Notes:
For this headword in a different sense see already
epsilon 3990. The fish of the present entry is mentioned by
Aristotle and others.
[1] Basil of
Caesarea,
Homilies on the Hexaemeron 7.6 (PG 29.161C).
[2] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AVG and a marginal addition in M. Whoever added it seems to have thought that 'Naukratian fish' uses a variant of
naukrates; but it might relate instead to the port of
Naukratis in Egypt (
nu 57,
nu 58).
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 6 February 2008@22:57:47.
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