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Headword: *sela/xia
Adler number: sigma,195
Translated headword: selachia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Such [sc. fish] as do not have scales, for instance a sea-eel, an ox-fish, a torpedo-fish, a sting-ray: but not oviparous.[1]
Greek Original:
*sela/xia: o(/sa lepi/da ou)k e)/xei, oi(=on smu/raina, bou=s, na/rkh, trugw/n: ou)de\ w)|otokei=.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative plural; cf. sigma 194 and see generally LSJ s.v. sela/xion. The entry is evidently generated from Aristophanes of Byzantium's Epitome or its basis in Aristotle (see next note).
The term is generally in the plural, as here, and denotes the sharks and rays comprising the cartilaginous or elasmobranch fishes.
[1] From Aristophanes of Byzantium, Epitome of Aristotle's History of Animals 1.2.1; cf. Aristotle, History of Animals 5.5 (540b17-20). [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms G adds, after trugw/n (sting-ray), kai\ ta\ toiau=ta (and similar ones).]
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 31 May 2012@23:27:24.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 1 June 2012@03:15:37.
David Whitehead on 22 December 2013@09:32:57.
Catharine Roth (translated and coded titles) on 30 November 2014@00:09:23.

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