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Headword:
*kh=tos
Adler number: kappa,1555
Translated headword: sea-monster, whale
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A marine beast with many forms.[1]
"For [largest] are a lion, a shark,[2] a pard, a puffer-fish,[3] a saw-fish[4] which is called malle, which is hard to struggle against; and a ram, an animal hateful to see."[5]
Greek Original:*kh=tos: qala/ssion qhri/on polueide/s. e)/sti ga\r le/wn, zu/gaina, pa/rdalis, fu/samos, prh=stis, h( legome/nh ma/llh, o(\ kai\ dusantagw/nisto/n e)sti: kai\ krio/s, i)dei=n e)xqro\n zw=|on.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1. The headword gives rise to the modern term cetacean (etc.).
[1] Similarly already in
Hesychius kappa2575, where Latte regards the entry as generated by
Jonah 2.1
LXX.
[2] See more precisely at
zeta 178.
[3] Read
fu/salos. See LSJ s.v. at web address 2, also
phi 856.
[4] Also spelled
pri/stis: LSJ at web address 3, also
pi 2270.
[5]
Aelian,
On the Nature of Animals 9.49.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2002@19:27:45.
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