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Headword:
Lebêris
Adler number: lambda,218
Translated headword: slough, cast skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the skin which a snake sheds.[1]
And [sc. there is] a proverb: "blinder than a cast skin and a peg."[2] It is a kind of bird, fleshless and thin. Otherwise [sc. the reading is] gumno/teros ["more naked"].[3]
And [there is] another proverb: "more naked than a pestle and a cast skin."[4]
For they say that Leberis was a poor man; from whom the proverb was derived.[5]
Greek Original:Lebêris: to gêras, ho apoduetai ho ophis. kai paroimia: Tuphloteros lebêridos kai kindalou. esti de eidos orneou asarkou kai leptou. allôs de gumnoteros. kai hetera paroimia: Gumnoteros huperou kai lebêridos. phasi gar hoti Lebêris penês egeneto: ex hou kai hê paroimia metêchthê.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius lambda135 Theodoridis); cf.
su/far at
sigma 1694.
[2] cf. the variants at
kappa 1580,
tau 1217.
[3]
Photius lambda136 mentions the
leberis as a bird of ill omen.
[4] From
gamma 491.
[5]
Hesychius lambda483 has a similar statement.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 March 2009@00:42:04.
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