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Headword: Hustrix
Adler number: upsilon,692
Translated headword: hystrix
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A whip [made] out of skins with the hairs still on. "Whipping with a hystrix." Aristophanes in Frogs [sc. uses the phrase].[1]
Or hystrix ["porcupine"], a hedgehog, a terrestrial hedgehog.[2]
Greek Original:
Hustrix: ek dermatos met' autôn tôn trichôn mastix. hustrichidi mastigôn. Aristophanês Batrachois. ê Hustrix, akanthochoiros, echinos chersaios.
Notes:
See also upsilon 693 and the note there.
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 619 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. beta 137, kappa 1804.
[2] On hedgehogs, see also epsilon 4009, chi 598.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 August 2010@10:54:26.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, cross-reference, status) on 18 August 2010@15:44:57.
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