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Headword:
Tuphloteros
aspalakos
Adler number: tau,1216
Translated headword: blinder than a blind-rat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. The saying arises] because of this creature having no eyes. Stesimbrotos says[1] that it was blinded by Ge [Earth], because of its destroying the crops; for it has very brutal teeth and a snout like a weasel's and feet like a bear's.
Greek Original:Tuphloteros aspalakos: dia to mê echein to zôion touto ophthalmous. phêsi d' auto Stêsimbrotos hupo tês Gês tuphlôthênai, dia to phtheirein tous karpous: echei gar odontas miarôtatous kai rhunchos hôsper galês kai podas hôs arktou.
Notes:
cf.
Diogenianus 8.25 and other paroemiographers. The creature is
Spalax typhlus, the blind mole rat of Eastern Europe and Asia.
[1] Stesimbrotos of
Thasos, FGrH 107 F18.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 November 2010@10:20:33.
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