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Headword: *)/exidna
Adler number: epsilon,4007
Translated headword: viper
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[A kind of] snake.
Greek Original:
*)/exidna: o)/fis.
Notes:
Similarly glossed in ps.-Herodian and the Etymologicum Magnum; and cf. epsilon 4006.
For this primary sense of the headword see LSJ s.v., where other senses are also attested, esp. 'a treacherous wife or friend' and, in upper case, the mythical monster Echidna (half-women, half-snake; mate of Typhon [tau 1226]; Hesiod, Theogony 295ff., etc.; OCD(4) 483).
Keywords: definition; imagery; mythology; poetry; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 February 2008@11:14:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 12 February 2008@03:22:14.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 21 November 2012@05:01:34.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 30 March 2015@11:54:58.
Catharine Roth (keyword, coding) on 30 March 2015@13:40:54.

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