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Headword:
*kestreu/s
Adler number: kappa,1431
Translated headword: mullet, kestreus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: What is now known as a kephalos.
Greek Original:*kestreu/s: o( nu=n lego/menos ke/falos.
Notes:
Definition repeated under
kappa 1432 (end), and paraphrased in
kappa 1429.
These two fish are often lumped together -- so e.g.
Archestratus fr.45 Brandt;
Oppian,
Halieutica 1.111;
Aristotle,
History of Animals 567a, 591a, 602a;
Aelian,
History of Animals 13.19;
Geoponica 20.41 -- though they are distinguished in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 7.306D-E (7.77 Kaibel) and 8.356B (8.52 Kaibel). The
kestreu/s is defined as a
ke/falos in the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wasps 790b, the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 339a, and the
scholia to
Oppian,
Halieutica 1.156, 2.642;
Hesychius kappa2401 about
ke/faloi says, "some kinds of
kestreu/s are so called."
Keywords: chronology; comedy; definition; food; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 10 November 2008@03:07:15.
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