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Headword: *kunorai+stai/
Adler number: kappa,2718
Translated headword: dog-ticks
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] ticks. The ones sucking out the blood of dogs.
Greek Original:
*kunorai+stai/: kro/twnes. oi( tw=n kunw=n to\ ai(=ma e)kpipi/zontes.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa1217 Theodoridis), and cf. also in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 17.300, where this term appears in the pathetic description of Odysseus' faithful but neglected old dog Argos [Myth, Place] (web address 1). See also kappa 2719.
An affliction of foxes as well as dogs: see the Aesop fable recounted in Aristotle, Rhetoric 1393b22ff.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2007@07:28:56.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 15 December 2007@21:29:21.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 15 December 2007@21:32:25.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 16 December 2007@04:13:26.
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