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Headword:
*)exi=nos
to\n
to/kon
a)naba/llh|
Adler number: epsilon,4009
Translated headword: a hedgehog would postpone childbirth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. This proverbial phrase] is said in reference to things which, if postponed, become worse. For terrestrial hedgehogs seem, when being poked on, to hold back childbirth, then later [sc. when troubled] by harsher embryos to (?)escape something worse in the childbirth.
*)exi=nos [means] both the animal and the stomach of an ox.[2]
In the Epigrams [it is written]: "the hedgehog body, shaggy with sharp quills."[3] And elsewhere: "seeing the hedgehog carrying grape-clusters on its back, Komaulus killed it in this vineyard's drying-floor."[4]
Greek Original:*)exi=nos to\n to/kon a)naba/llh|: le/getai e)f' w(=n to\ a)naba/llesqai pro\s xei/ronos gi/netai. kai\ ga\r oi( xersai=oi e)xi=noi dokou=si kentou/menoi a)ne/xein to\n to/kon, ei)=q' u(/steron u(po\ traxute/rwn tw=n e)mbru/wn ka/kion a)palla/ssein e)n tw=| to/kw|. *)exi=nos de\ kai\ to\ zw=|on, kai\ h( gasth\r tou= boo/s. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: o)ce/si laxnh/enta de/mas ke/ntroisin e)xi=non. kai\ au)=qis: kw/maulos to\n e)xi=non i)dw\n e)pi\ nw=ta fe/ronta r(a=gas a)pe/kteine tw=|d' e)pi\ qeilope/dw|.
Notes:
cf. generally
epsilon 4010,
epsilon 4011,
epsilon 4012,
epsilon 4013.
[1] Also in
Photius; and cf.
Diogenianus 4.91 and other paroemiographers.
[2] From the
scholia to
Nicander,
Theriaca 579.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.45.1 (perhaps
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a grape-stealing hedgehog is caught and dedicated to Dionysus; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (209); vol. II (581-582); and further excerpts from this epigram at
theta 314,
rho 10, and
sigma 466.
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.169.1-2 (author unknown); cf.
kappa 2257,
sigma 466. [The verb
a)pe/kteine ('killed' )seems, for metrical reasons, to require] a final nu.]
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: agriculture; botany; children; daily life; ethics; food; medicine; poetry; proverbs; religion; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 10 February 2008@18:24:35.
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