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Headword:
*)exi=nos
Adler number: epsilon,4010
Translated headword: sea-urchin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "What sort of Nereus gives farsighted pupils to the sea-urchins, in the deep of the tossing seas, in such a way that they flee from the effects of the storm before the storm?[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: "[sc. That would never happen] before two urchins could come together in friendship, one from the sea, the other from dry-land"; in reference to dissimilar [things].[2]
Greek Original:*)exi=nos. poi=os de\ *nhreu\s tw=n e)xi/nwn toi=s sa/lois probleptika\s di/dwsin e)n buqw=| ko/ras, o(/pws fu/gwsi pro\ za/lhs ta\ th=s za/lhs. kai\ paroimi/a: pri/n ke du/o e)xi=noi e)s fili/an e)/lqoien, o( me\n e)k pela/gous, o( de\ e)k xe/rsou: e)pi\ tw=n a)nomoi/wn.
Notes:
For this headword in other senses, zoological and other, cf.
epsilon 4009,
epsilon 4011,
epsilon 4012,
epsilon 4013.
[1] George of
Pisidia,
Hexaemeron 1161-3,
Esamerone 1132-1134 Tartaglia; on the ability to foretell tempests, the sea-urchin's gift from the Creator. As Tartaglia notes (380, note 179), here the Pisidian evidently draws upon Basil of
Caesarea Hexaemeron VII.5.16-24. The translation follows the original text, which reads
toi=s e)xi/nois tw=n sa/lwn. For Nereus and the Nereids cf.
nu 328,
nu 329,
nu 330,
nu 333.
[2] cf.
Diogenianus 7.61. The paroemiographer notes that the phrase also applies
e)pi\ tou= a)duna/tou: "to the impossible".
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: Christianity; daily life; ethics; imagery; mythology; poetry; proverbs; religion; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 11 February 2008@21:24:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 February 2008@06:43:07.
David Whitehead on 21 November 2012@05:08:22.
David Whitehead (coding) on 22 March 2016@10:07:48.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography and keywords) on 10 October 2025@13:21:26.
Ronald Allen (my typo n.1) on 11 October 2025@13:11:06.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 13 October 2025@12:37:55.
Ronald Allen (further tweaking after further discussion) on 14 October 2025@12:14:16.
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