"Despise the deceitful and wily [sc. nature] of the vixen!".[1] They refer [by the word 'vixen'] to the [sc. female] fox.[2]
*kafw/rhs: to\ th=s kafw/rhs mi/shson dolero\n kai\ kerdw=|on. le/gousi de\ th\n a)lw/peka.
The headword, genitive singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] The adjective
kerdw=|os has the second sense given in LSJ s.v., being derived not from
ke/rdos "profit", but
kerdw/ "the wily one, the fox". (The two senses are nevertheless related: see
kappa 1391 on
kerdale/os.) The sense is unique to
Babrius 1.77.2: it is the "wily" (rather than "profitable") retort of the Fox to the Crow in the Aesopic myth. This might suggest
Babrius as the origin of the Aesopic-looking quotation.
[2] The noun
kafw/rh is not otherwise attested, but is clearly a variant of
skafw/rh, given as a name for the fox in
Aristophanes of
Byzantium fr.5 Nauck (along with
kerdw/), and cited in
Aelian,
De natura animalium 7.47.
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