[Meaning] the animal [of that name].[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "how, being a Mede, did he fly here without a camel?" For the Medes came into Greece by camel.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the term]
kamelites, an ox so called.[3]
But a
kamilos [is] a thick rope.[4]
Kamêlos: to zôion. Aristophanês: pôs aneu kamêlou Mêdos ôn eseptato; epei dia kamêlôn êlthon hoi Mêdoi es tên Hellada. kai Kamêlitês bous houtô kaloumenos. Kamilos de to pachu schoinion.
cf. Theophylact of Ochrid's Notes (PG 123.356d) on
Matthew 19.24 ('it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle etc.').
[1] Either the Bactrian camel or the dromedary: LSJ entry at web address 1; cf.
sigma 700.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 278 (web address 2), and scholion. On the Medes (Persians) and their camels in Xerxes' invasion see
Herodotus 7.83-87.
[3] Perhaps a (sc. African/Asian) buffalo: see LSJ entry at web address 3.
[4] Perhaps coined to explain
Matthew 19.24 (above): see LSJ entry at web address 4.
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