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Headword:
Tuphloteros
lebêridos
Adler number: tau,1217
Translated headword: more blind than serpent-skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ['More blind than serpent-skin'[1] and 'more useless than serpent-skin';[2] both expressions are used. But leberis is, in effect, leperis. And lepostatai.[3] Also in reference to cicadas and all the [creatures] which shed old age.
Greek Original:Tuphloteros lebêridos kai Kenoteros lebêridos: amphotera legetai. lebêris de hoion lepêris. kai lepostatai. kai epi tettigôn kai pantôn tôn to gêras apoleipomenôn.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (tau581 Theodoridis), taken to come from
Pausanias the Atticist (tau54), and in several of the pareomiographers; cf. already
gamma 491 and
lambda 218, and generically
tau 1216.
[1]
Aristophanes fr. 25 Kock (33 K.-A.).
[2]
Strattis [
sigma 1178] fr. 10 Demianczuk, now part of 52 K.-A.
[3] Such a word is otherwise unattested and is surely corrupt. Porson's suggested emendation to
kai\ le/pos ta/ttetai 'and a husk/scale is being applied' is applauded by Adler; see also Theodoridis' apparatus.
Leutsch, E.L. and F.G. Schneidewin (eds). Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum. vol. 1. Vandehoeck and Ruprecht Publ.: Gottingen, 1839
Keywords: comedy; daily life; imagery; medicine; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Patrick Hogan on 3 August 2012@15:15:15.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 August 2012@05:34:32.
David Whitehead (expansions to notes; tweaking raised status) on 16 January 2014@07:56:56.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 January 2015@09:22:09.
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