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Headword: *prh=stis
Adler number: pi,2270
Translated headword: saw-fish
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of maritime whale/monster. The so-called mal[th]e; it is a formidable opponent.[1]
Greek Original:
*prh=stis: ei)=dos kh/tous qalassi/ou. h( legome/nh ma/lh: o(\ kai\ dusantagw/nisto/n e)sti.
Notes:
See LSJ s.v. pri/stis; Pristis antiquorum a.k.a. Pristis pristis. Cf. kappa 1555.
[1] Adler prints ma/lh, while noting that ma/lqh is the form in mss GM and also in Aelian, On the Nature of Animals 9.49 (from whom this comment on the malle [sic] is taken).
Keywords: definition; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 March 2010@06:23:56.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 30 April 2010@01:18:57.
David Whitehead (another note) on 30 April 2010@03:26:12.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1) on 2 November 2011@10:47:22.
David Whitehead on 24 May 2016@04:16:46.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 29 October 2021@22:52:48.
Catharine Roth on 30 October 2021@01:04:40.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 30 October 2021@01:09:32.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 31 October 2021@00:43:55.
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