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Headword: Kupris
Adler number: kappa,2738
Translated headword: Kypris, Kupris, Cypris
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An epithet of Aphrodite; since she furnishes pregnancy [kuoporis]. The same [goddess] is also known as Kytherian.[1]
['Kytherian' comes] from her hiding [keu/qein] love-affairs [e)/rwtas].[2]
Cypriot cattle are dumb[er] than others: for it is said they eat shit.[3] Also look at the proverb in the [entry] 'an ox on a grain-heap'.[4]
Greek Original:
Kupris: epitheton Aphroditês: kuoporis tis ousa. hê autê legetai kai Kuthereia. para to keuthein tous erôtas. hoti hoi Kuprioi boes anaisthêtoi tôn allôn: phasi gar autous koprophagein. kai zêtei tên paroimian en tôi bous epi sôrôi.
Notes:
[1] cf. kappa 2628, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.422 (giving rise to Etymologicum Magnum 546.17).
[2] cf. Etym.Magn. 543.40.
[3] cf. beta 462.
[4] beta 461.
Keywords: aetiology; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; geography; mythology; proverbs; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 22 May 2002@15:23:33.
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