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Headword:
*)opisqoba/mwn
Adler number: omicron,456
Translated headword: backwards-walking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Descriptive of] the crab.[1]
"Backwards-walking, neckless, eight-footed swimmer."[2]
Greek Original:*)opisqoba/mwn: o( pa/gouros. o)pisqoba/mona, tri/xhlon, o)kta/poun nhkta/n.
Notes:
[1] The epithet "eight-footed",
o)kta/pous or
o)ktw/pous, is applied to various animals: the crab (as here), the scorpion (as at
omicron 130), and the octopus (Alexander Trallianus 7.1).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.196.2-3 (Statyllius
Flaccus), reading
a)tra/xhlon "neckless" instead of the Suda's
tri/xhlon. For another extract from this epigram, the dedication of a crab to Pan, see
rho 72; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (422-423) and vol. II (452).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: definition; imagery; medicine; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 October 2002@12:54:28.
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