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Headword:
*li/s
Adler number: lambda,598
Translated headword: lion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [li/s means the same as] le/wn.[1]
[There is] a fable: "a raw-devouring lion became a sharer in life with a donkey."[2]
Greek Original:*li/s: o( le/wn. mu=qos: e)s bi/oton koino\s o)/nw| ge/net' w)mobo/ros li/s.
Notes:
[1] Epic/poetic noun, with the same or similar glossing in other lexica and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 17.109, where the word occurs in a simile (web address 1). Chantraine says that the word may have been borrowed independently into Greek and into Semitic.
[2] See Crusius' edition of
Babrius, p. 216 fr. 5.
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) p. 617
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 June 2009@19:49:08.
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