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Headword: *pa/n
Adler number: pi,148
Translated headword: Pan
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[genitive] *pano/s.
[Note] that Aesop, Mithridates' secretary, wrote [a work called] Concerning Helen, in which he says that there is a whale-like fish called a Pan; in this [fish] the precious stone is found, which lights up in the sun. [Helen] uses [it] for love charms.[1]
Greek Original:
*pa/n, *pano/s. o(/ti *ai)/swpos, o( *miqrida/tou a)nagnw/sths, e)/graye peri\ *(ele/nhs: e)n w(=| fhsi *pa=na i)xqu\n kalei=sqai khtw/dh. e)n tou/tw| de\ to\n a)steri/thn li/qon eu(ri/skesqai, o(\s u(po\ tw=| h(li/w| a)na/ptetai, poiei= de\ pro\s fi/ltra.
Notes:
A marginal addition in ms. A (and placed earlier in ms .V).
[1] From alphaiota 333; see also iota 783.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; mythology; science and technology; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 April 2006@04:32:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 28 April 2006@13:33:13.
David Whitehead (another note) on 11 May 2011@08:56:46.
David Whitehead on 30 November 2015@08:30:59.
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