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Headword: *salama/ndra
Adler number: sigma,46
Translated headword: salamander
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An animal, like a lizard[1] in size, very cold by nature, so that it can enter a fire and quench the flame without itself being burned.
Greek Original:
*salama/ndra: zw=|on, w(s sau/ra to\ me/geqos, yuxro/taton th\n fu/sin, w(s kai\ to\ pu=r ei)sduo/menon th\n flo/ga sbennu/nai kai\ au)to\ mh\ pi/mprasqai.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
For the present glossing cf. the scholia on Nicander, Alexipharmaca 537, and the Lexicon to Gregory of Nazianzus (on Gr.'s use of salama/ndrh in one of his Carmina moralia).
[1] sigma 158; and cf. phi 563.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; medicine; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 October 2001@18:52:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note) on 1 September 2002@06:12:41.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 25 July 2006@07:17:56.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 25 July 2006@11:38:46.
David Whitehead (tweaked notes; more keywords) on 16 August 2011@06:26:04.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; more keywords) on 19 December 2013@05:00:49.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 22 December 2013@01:11:19.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 20 September 2014@00:17:03.
David Whitehead (cosmeticule) on 20 September 2014@02:57:33.
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