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Headword:
*)/ofeis
parei/as
Adler number: omicron,1002
Translated headword: reddish-brown snakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those which have raised cheeks [
pareiai/]. They are thought to be gentle and not to harm humans, but to eat vipers and to be sacred in the mysteries.[1]
Also [attested is]
o)fei/dion ["little snake"] in the diminutive.[2]
Interpretation of a dream: treading on snakes destroys the goads of one's enemies.[3]
*)/ofeis parei/as: tou\s e)phrme/nas e)/xontas ta\s pareia/s. dokou=si de\ h)/pioi ei)=nai kai\ mh\ a)dikei=n a)nqrw/pous: e)sqi/ein de\ tou\s e)/xeis kai\ ei)=nai tw=n musthri/wn i(eroi/. kai\ *)ofei/dion, u(pokoristikw=s. lu/sis o)nei/rou: o)/feis patei=n ta\ ke/ntra tw=n e)xqrw=n lu/ei.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron706 Theodoridis; similarly in other lexica and in a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 690, where the headword phrase (in the accusative plural) occurs (web address 1); cf.
pi 585.
[2] Copied from here to
omicron 998, where this form would belong in alphabetical order.
[3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251). Not in manuscripts AF; in the margin of M, and after
omicron 1007 in V.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 July 2010@01:02:54.
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