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Headword:
Melitaion
kunidion
Adler number: mu,519
Translated headword: Maltese lap-dog
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For some dogs are trackers, others go head-to-head with beasts; some watch the house on guard over possessions, others [are kept] for pleasure, for instance Maltese lap-dogs.[1]
Also [sc. attested are] Honey-pie dogs, ones reared for pleasure.[2]
Greek Original:Melitaion kunidion. tôn gar kunôn hoi men ichneutai, hoi de homose tois thêriois chôrousin, hoi de epi phulakêi tôn ktêmatôn oikouroi, hoi de epi terpsei, hôs ta Melitaia kunidia. kai Melitêroi kunes, hoi epi terpsei trephomenoi.
Notes:
[1]
Artemidorus 2.11. For other references to them see LSJ s.v.
Melitaios. For the diminutive
kuni/dion, see
kappa 2708.
[2] [Occasion for mentioning these arises from the similarity between
*melitai=oi ("Maltese") and
melithro/s ("honey-sweet").] This phrase is also in the paroemiographer
Apostolius (11.24), who expands with the material already given here.
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 21 March 2002@20:39:35.
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