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Headword:
*sela/xia
Adler number: sigma,195
Translated headword: selachia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Such [sc. fish] as do not have scales, for instance a sea-eel, an ox-fish, a torpedo-fish, a sting-ray: but not oviparous.[1]
Greek Original:*sela/xia: o(/sa lepi/da ou)k e)/xei, oi(=on smu/raina, bou=s, na/rkh, trugw/n: ou)de\ w)|otokei=.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative plural; cf.
sigma 194 and see generally LSJ s.v.
sela/xion. The entry is evidently generated from
Aristophanes of
Byzantium's Epitome or its basis in
Aristotle (see next note).
The term is generally in the plural, as here, and denotes the sharks and rays comprising the cartilaginous or elasmobranch fishes.
[1] From
Aristophanes of
Byzantium, Epitome of
Aristotle's
History of Animals 1.2.1; cf.
Aristotle,
History of Animals 5.5 (540b17-20). [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms G adds, after
trugw/n (
sting-ray),
kai\ ta\ toiau=ta (
and similar ones).]
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 31 May 2012@23:27:24.
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