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Headword: *skia/podes
Adler number: sigma,600
Translated headword: Skiapodes, Shadow-feet
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A tribe in Libya, which has wide feet; [the people] who in the heat make shade for themselves with their feet.[1]
By the western ocean, near the burning region, [are the] Shadow-feet; they say that these have soles larger than their whole body; because they do not have houses, but are withered by the heat, walking on four feet they hold up one of their feet and shade the rest of their body. For their nature granted them this, since their land is level and rough and has no hollows for refuge from the heat.[2]
Greek Original:
*skia/podes: e)n *libu/h| e)/qnos, platei=s e)/xon tou\s po/das: oi(\ e)n tw=| kau/mati e)k tw=n podw=n e(autoi=s skia\n poiou=si. peri\ to\n dutiko\n w)keano/n, pro\s th=| kekaume/nh| zw/nh| *skia/podes: tou/tous e)/xein bh/mata/ fasi tou= panto\s sw/matos mei/zona: dia\ de\ to\ mh\ e)/xein oi)/kous, a)ll' u(po\ tou= kau/matos a)nali/skesqai, tetrapodhdo\n badi/zontas, a)norqou=n to\n e(/teron tw=n podw=n kai\ kataskia/zein to\ loipo\n sw=ma. tou=to ga\r au)toi=s e)xari/sato h( fu/sis, i)/shs ou)/shs th=s gh=s au)tw=n kai\ traxei/as kai\ kata/dusin mh\ e)xou/shs ei)s a)pofugh\n tou= kau/matos.
Notes:
See also sigma 601.
[1] cf. Hesychius s.v.
[2] From scholia on Aristophanes, Birds 1553 (where the headword occurs in the dative case); cf. tau 399.
Keywords: comedy; definition; geography; medicine; mythology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 January 2006@01:11:56.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded n.2) on 15 January 2006@04:55:06.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 15 January 2006@18:44:40.
David Whitehead (typo) on 16 January 2006@02:53:50.
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