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Headword: *)/ecedros
Adler number: epsilon,1596
Translated headword: exotic
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Having exotic skin." That is, transformed [skin].[1]
And Sophokles [writes]: "not exotic, but a local man."[2]
"Omens were said to be both exotic and in no way good."[3]
Greek Original:
*)/ecedros: e)/cedron xro/an e)/xwn. toute/sti parhllagme/nhn. kai\ *sofoklh=s: ou)k e)/cedros, a)ll' e)/ntopos a)nh/r. oi)wnoi\ e)le/gonto e)/cedroi/ te ei)=nai kai\ mhdamh= xrhstoi/.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 275, where this phrase occurs.
[2] Sophokles, Philoktetes 212.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable (but cf. generally Cassius Dio 37.25.1).
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; poetry; religion; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 27 September 2006@04:49:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 27 September 2006@07:12:04.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 15 March 2011@11:11:45.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 11 September 2012@08:54:04.
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