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Headword:
Oktôpoun
Adler number: omicron,130
Translated headword: eight-footer, scorpion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Cratinus in
Thracian Girls [says]: "you are waking an eight-footer". Meaning a scorpion.[1] For [there is] a proverb: "you are waking an eight-footed scorpion."[2] And in the
Xantriai of
Aeschylus, the Fury, in calling the divine power on the Bacchants, says: "from the feet a rending rises from below to the top of the head, a wound of the tongue, I mean the dart of the scorpion."[3]
Greek Original:Oktôpoun: Kratinos Thraittais: oktôpoun anegeireis. anti tou skorpion. paroimia gar: skorpion oktôpoun anegeireis. en de tais Aischulou Xantriais hê Lussa epitheiazousa tais Bakchais phêsin: ek podôn d' anô huperchetai sparagmos eis akron kara, kentêma glôssês, skorpiou belos legô.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (omicron195 Theodoridis), from
Pausanias the Atticist (omicron15).
[1]
Cratinus fr. 77 Kock (80 K.-A.). The epithet "eight-footed" is applied to various animals such as the scorpion, the crab, and the octopus: see
omicron 456.
[2] cf.
Diogenianus 8.8 and other paroemiographers, and see generally Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.774.
[3]
Aeschylus fr. 169 Radt.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 October 2002@00:35:28.
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