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Headword:
*)/akerws
bou=s
Adler number: alpha,838
Translated headword: hornless ox
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one not having horns.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)/kerwn, neuter [and] single-case.[2]
Greek Original:*)/akerws bou=s: o( mh\ e)/xwn ke/rata. kai\ *)/akerwn, ou)dete/rws mono/ptwton.
Notes:
The headword phrase occurs in a short list of similarly paradoxical ones (including cowardly lion and wingless bird) in
Maximus of Tyre,
Lectures 11.5.e6; cf.
Lexicon Vindobonense alpha32
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. The more usual adjective is
a)ke/ratos.
[2] See e.g.
Plato,
Politicus 265B;
Aelian,
De natura animalium 2.53.
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 4 March 2000@13:18:52.
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