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Headword:
*frico/trixa
Adler number: phi,718
Translated headword: with hair standing on end
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning him/it] making the hair stand on end.[1]
Babrius [writes]: "while a lion was sleeping a mouse ran through his wild mane. The lion was angered and with bristling mane leapt out of his hollow lair."[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
fri/ssw ["I bristle, I shudder"], [meaning] I squeeze together.[3]
*frico/trixa: o)rqou=nta ta\s tri/xas. *ba/brios: koimwme/nou le/ontos a)gri/hs xai/ths die/drame mu=s, o( de\ le/wn e)qumw/qh, fri/cas de\ xai/thn e)/kqore fwla/dos koi/lhs. kai\ *fri/ssw, to\ puknw=.
Notes:
[1] Accusative singular of
frico/qric (see LSJ at web address 1), evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps fr. 16 of the Hellenistic philosopher Hieronymus of
Rhodes, preserved by
Clement of Alexandria.
[2]
Babrius 82.1-3; see also
epsilon 449,
pi 46,
phi 644.
[3] See LSJ entry at web address 2; also
phi 719.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 July 2001@13:54:09.
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