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Headword:
Opheis
pareias
Adler number: omicron,1002
Translated headword: reddish-brown snakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those which have raised cheeks [
pareiai/]. They are thought to be gentle and not to harm humans, but to eat vipers and to be sacred in the mysteries.[1]
Also [attested is]
o)fei/dion ["little snake"] in the diminutive.[2]
Interpretation of a dream: treading on snakes destroys the goads of one's enemies.[3]
Opheis pareias: tous epêrmenas echontas tas pareias. dokousi de êpioi einai kai mê adikein anthrôpous: esthiein de tous echeis kai einai tôn mustêriôn hieroi. kai Opheidion, hupokoristikôs. lusis oneirou: opheis patein ta kentra tôn echthrôn luei.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron706 Theodoridis; similarly in other lexica and in a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 690, where the headword phrase (in the accusative plural) occurs (web address 1); cf.
pi 585.
[2] Copied from here to
omicron 998, where this form would belong in alphabetical order.
[3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251). Not in manuscripts AF; in the margin of M, and after
omicron 1007 in V.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 July 2010@01:02:54.
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