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Headword:
*mw/nuxa
zw=|a
Adler number: mu,1334
Translated headword: uncloven-hoofed animals, single-hoofed animals
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Examples include] horse, ass, mule, and if there is some other, [it is also included]. It has happened for these that they do not swim and they are called pack-animals.[1][2]
Greek Original:*mw/nuxa zw=|a: i(/ppos, o)/nos, o)reu/s, kai\ ei)/ ti a)/llo. tou/tois sumbe/bhke mh\ nei=n kai\ lofu/rois keklh=sqai.
Notes:
From the epitome of
Aristotle's
History of Animals (cf. next note) by
Aristophanes of
Byzantium.
For uncloven-hoofed see
mu 1335.
[1] In
Aristotle,
History of Animals 491a1, examples of pack-animals include the horse, ass, mule, ginnos (
gi/nnos --offspring of mare and mule), and the Syrian wild-ass (the onager, see
omicron 324).
[2] "pack-animal" (here spelled
lofu/rois in the dative plural) is normally spelled
lo/fouros or
lofou=ros (see LSJ at web address 1).
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Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: Kyle Helms on 2 May 2009@10:17:29.
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