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Headword:
*dra/kwn
Adler number: delta,1497
Translated headword: Drakon, Draco; dragon, snake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Drakon,] grandson of
Hippocrates, the famous physician;[1] son of Thessalos.[2] He was the father of
Hippocrates, who again had a son Drakon, also a physician, [the one] who healed Rhoxane while she was living with Alexander of Macedon.[3]
A dragon, the animal, has a forked tongue, and likewise also the orator.[4]
They say that a dragon, if captured and struck on the head, dies.[5]
In [sc. the book of]
Job the Devil is called "dragon." "With an anklet you will pierce his lip."[6]
Greek Original:*dra/kwn, ui(idou=s *(ippokra/tous, tou= diash/mou i)atrou=, a)po\ *qessalou=: path\r de\ *(ippokra/tous: ou(= pa/lin ge/gone *dra/kwn, i)atro\s kai\ au)to/s, o(\s *(rwca/nhn i)a/treuse, sunoikou=san *)aleca/ndrw| tw=| *make- do/ni. o(/ti dra/kwn, to\ qhri/on, diplh=n e)/xei th\n glw=ssan, o(moi/ws kai\ o( r(h/twr. fasi\n o(/ti dra/kwn, e)a\n a(lw=|, ei)s th\n kefalh\n paio/menos a)poqnh/skei. o(/ti dra/kwn e)n tw=| *)iw\b o( *dia/bolos le/getai. yeli/w| de\ truph/seis to\ xei=los au)tou=.
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Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; history; imagery; medicine; religion; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 December 2003@02:39:50.
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