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Headword: *fw/kh
Adler number: phi,641
Translated headword: seal
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An evil-smelling marine creature. Aristophanes [writes]: "he had the smell of a seal".
Greek Original:
*fw/kh: du/sosmon zw=|on qala/ttion. *)aristofa/nhs: fw/khs d' o)smh\n ei)=xe.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Peace 758 (web address 1) with scholion; earlier in Wasps 1035; and for the unpleasant smell of seals see already Homer, Odyssey 4.442.
cf. phi 637.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; epic; medicine; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 October 2006@07:54:29.
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Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 15 October 2006@01:05:18.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 15 October 2006@04:16:26.
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