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Headword:
zw=|on
Adler number: chi,69
Translated headword: chamaeleon, chameleon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A creature [of that name],[1] changing into any colour except white.[2]
Greek Original:*xamaile/wn. zw=|on, ei)s pa/nta th\n xroia\n metatre/pwn plh\n leukou=.
Notes:
Chamaeleo vulgaris;
Aristotle,
History of Animals 503a15-30, etc. For plants with the same name, see
chi 70.
[1] Also (though irrelevantly in the present context) a personal name: see under
alpha 3668,
alpha 3907,
omicron 806.
[2]
Hesychius has the same lemma but a different gloss. (The Suda's gloss, with or without 'except white', is paralleled in some of the paroemiographers.)
Keywords: definition; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2001@11:27:46.
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