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Headword: Echis
Adler number: epsilon,4015
Translated headword: viper
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of a snake.[1] [sc. So called] from [the ability] to hold fast:[2] since it alone of snakes does not lay eggs, but is viviparous. The dative is tw| e)/xei.
Also [sc. attested is the diminutive] e)xei/dion.[3] Mention is also made of an ai(mo/rrous, a kind of viper, which has its habitat in the clefts of rocks.[4]
Greek Original:
Echis: eidos opheôs. apo tou katechein: dioti monon tôn opheôn ouk ôiotokei, alla zôiotokei. hê dotikê tôi echei. kai Echeidion. legetai kai haimorrous genos echeos, en tois petrôdesi chêramois echon tas diatribas.
Notes:
[1] cf. epsilon 4007.
[2] i.e. echis from the verb echein.
[3] cf. epsilon 4006.
[4] From alphaiota 206.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; medicine; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 7 February 2008@21:38:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 February 2008@03:51:50.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 21 November 2012@05:14:46.
Catharine Roth (betacode) on 28 March 2018@18:49:27.

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