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Headword:
*dermisth/s
Adler number: delta,261
Translated headword: skin-eater
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Lysias maintains that the worm is so called,[1] whereas
Aristarchus [applies the term to] the snake.[2] But perhaps, rather, someone who eats skins would be more appropriately so called.[3]
Greek Original:*dermisth/s: *lusi/as me\n to\n skw/lhka/ fhsin ou(/tws le/gesqai, *)ari/starxos de\ to\n o)/fin. ei)/h d' a)\n ma=llon o( de/rmata e)sqi/wn e)tumw/teron ou(/tw kalou/menos.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v.
dermhsth/s.
[1]
Lysias fr. 104 Sauppe, now 122 Carey OCT. But NB, according to Harpokration,
Lysias merely used the word, without explanation. It was
Didymus, commenting on
Sophokles (fr. 449 Radt), who attempted to gloss it.
[2] For
Aristarchus see generally
alpha 3892.
[3] From the
Milesian Histories of
Aristides (FGrH 495 F1).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 October 2000@04:58:40.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 September 2002@12:06:44.
William Hutton (modified translation, added keyword, set status) on 18 July 2003@06:02:40.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword; cosmetics) on 4 July 2011@09:23:15.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:39:15.
Catharine Roth (betacode) on 16 July 2016@01:18:00.
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