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Headword: *)exi/wn
Adler number: epsilon,4014
Translated headword: Echion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name. And it shortens [sc. the omega to omicron in oblique cases].
He was very fast on his feet.
Greek Original:
*)exi/wn: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ suste/llei. h)=n de\ w)ku/tatos posi/n.
Note:
The name -- literally meaning Snake-man -- of two figures in mythology (OCD(4) s.v.): husband of Agave and father of Pentheus; son of Hermes and twin brother of Erytos, both of them Argonauts and participants in the Calydonian boar-hunt. The present entry presumably concerns the latter; cf. in any case iota 368.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2002@08:48:26.
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Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 15 November 2002@15:08:01.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 19 October 2003@05:19:51.
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