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Headword:
*ne/podes
Adler number: nu,250
Translated headword: footless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A term for] fishes. [sc. The word is formed] from the privative [prefix] ne- and pou=s ["foot"]; for they are footless.[1]
In the Epigrams: "... winged [creatures] and the profits of wilder and footless [creatures]."[2]
Greek Original:*ne/podes: oi( i)xqu/es. para\ to\ ne sterhtiko\n kai\ to\ pou=s: a)/podes ga/r ei)sin. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: pthna\ kai\ a)grote/rwn ke/rdea kai\ nepo/dwn.
Notes:
[1] cf. Orus cited in
Etymologicum Magnum 601.29; also a scholion on
Homer,
Odyssey 4.404 (where the headword is applied to seals: web address 1),
Apion cited in Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon 115.31, ps.-Herodian 90. See also
nu 251.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.11.6 (Satrius/Satyrius), dedications to Pan by three brothers: a fowler, a hunter, and a fisherman; cf. Page (88-89).
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 August 2009@22:30:12.
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