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Headword: *krio\s a)selgo/kerws
Adler number: kappa,2436
Translated headword: outrageously-horned ram
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Plato the comic poet says 'outrageously-horned'. This is because the ancients used to apply the [term] outrageous not only to licentious things/people but also to large things/people.
Greek Original:
*krio\s a)selgo/kerws: to\n megalo/kerwn fhsi\ *pla/twn o( kwmiko/s. to\ ga\r a)selge\s ou) mo/non e)pi\ tw=n a)kola/stwn e)la/mbanon oi( palaioi/, a)lla\ kai\ e)pi\ tw=n mega/lwn.
Notes:
cf. alpha 4140.
In Diogenianus 5.61 and other paroemiographers.
[1] Plato Comicus fr. 210 Kock, now 232 K.-A.
Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 December 2007@07:36:44.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 14 December 2007@00:58:26.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 14 December 2007@03:21:58.
David Whitehead on 18 March 2013@05:13:22.
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