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Headword: *polu/podos di/khn
Adler number: pi,1995
Translated headword: in an octopus' manner
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. Used of someone] devouring himself.
Greek Original:
*polu/podos di/khn: au)to\s e(auto\n katafagw/n.
Notes:
Identical entry in Hesychius (pi2913) and Photius (pi1054 Theodoridis); and the paroemiographer Macarius Chrysocephalus has (7.27) polu/podos tro/pon, unglossed.
Autophagy in octopuses is still, to this day, a subject of scientific research (and speculation). See article by B.U. Budelmann at web address 1.
For octopuses cf. pi 1996, pi 1997.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; food; imagery; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 August 2009@19:12:55.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 18 August 2009@04:40:06.
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