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Headword:
*luko/stomos
Adler number: lambda,819
Translated headword: wolf-mouth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Wolf-mouth] and krasicholos: names of an anchovy; that is, of a grayling.[1]
And elsewhere: "he passed not from men into [being] a wolf, as in the Arcadian story, but from a king into a harsh tyrant".[2]
Greek Original:*luko/stomos kai\ *krasi/xolos: e)pi/qeta a)fu/hs: o(/ e)stin e)ggrau/lews. kai\ au)=qis: ou) lu/kos e)c a)nqrw/pwn, kata\ to\n *)arkadiko\n mu=qon, a)lla\ tu/rannos e)k basile/ws a)pe/bh pikro/s.
Notes:
[1] For the first of these see
Aelian,
History of Animals 8.18, 13.2; and cf.
alpha 4660.
[2]
Polybius 7.13.7 -- abridged: he attributes 'the Arcadian story' to
Plato (
Republic 565D) -- on Philip V of Macedon (
phi 355).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2007@07:35:05.
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