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Headword:
Aix
Adler number: alphaiota,235
Translated headword: goat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [ai)/c], [genitive] ai)go/s.[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "the nanny-goat giving the knife."[2] For as the Corinthians were sacrificing to Hera Akraia, [whose cult] Medea is said to have established, the hired men[3] hiding the knife in the nearby earth claimed that they had forgotten it. But the goat dug it up with her feet.
Greek Original:Aix, aigos. kai paroimia: Hê aix dousa tên machairan. Korinthiôn gar Hêrai Akraiai thuontôn, hên legetai hidrusai Mêdeian, hoi en têi parochôi memisthômenoi gêi krupsantes tên machairan eskêptonto epilelêsthai. hê de aix autên tois posin aneskaleusen.
Notes:
cf.
alphaiota 69,
alphaiota 236.
[1] Similarly in other lexica and grammars.
[2]
Zenobius 1.27 has a fuller version of what follows. See also
Hesychius alpha2012 and
Photius s.v. 'the nanny-goat'.
[3] Adler reports that ms F has not
memisqwme/noi but
memustwme/noi, "initiates".
Zenobius, though, has the periphrasis "some of the hired men who had brought [it]".
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 October 2002@23:23:46.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 October 2002@03:20:38.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; another note; more keywords) on 15 May 2012@06:50:00.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 28 November 2015@09:13:08.
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