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Headword: *)opisqoba/mwn
Adler number: omicron,456
Translated headword: backwards-walking
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. Descriptive of] the crab.[1]
"Backwards-walking, neckless, eight-footed swimmer."[2]
Greek Original:
*)opisqoba/mwn: o( pa/gouros. o)pisqoba/mona, tri/xhlon, o)kta/poun nhkta/n.
Notes:
[1] The epithet "eight-footed", o)kta/pous or o)ktw/pous, is applied to various animals: the crab (as here), the scorpion (as at omicron 130), and the octopus (Alexander Trallianus 7.1).
[2] Greek Anthology 6.196.2-3 (Statyllius Flaccus), reading a)tra/xhlon "neckless" instead of the Suda's tri/xhlon. For another extract from this epigram, the dedication of a crab to Pan, see rho 72; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (422-423) and vol. II (452).
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: definition; imagery; medicine; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 October 2002@12:54:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 6 October 2002@04:50:55.
Catharine Roth (improved punctuation) on 6 October 2002@17:59:09.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 28 October 2009@10:55:23.
David Whitehead on 5 July 2013@06:26:24.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 17 November 2018@19:45:23.

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