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Headword: *seirh\n me\n fi/lon a)gge/llei, cei=non de\ me/lissa
Adler number: sigma,279
Translated headword: a siren announces a friend (but) a bee a stranger
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The "siren" is an animal which makes wax, similar to the bee.
Greek Original:
*seirh\n me\n fi/lon a)gge/llei, cei=non de\ me/lissa: seirh\n zw=|o/n e)sti khropoio/n, meli/ssh| paraplh/sion.
Notes:
= Photius sigma116 Theodoridis, perhaps from Pausanias the Atticist (sigma7).
The headword phrase, a dactylic hexameter, appears as a proverb in some of the paroemiographers: Zenobius 5.97, Apostolius 15.38.
The wasp called "siren" is mentioned, as Zenobius noted, by Aristotle: History of Animals 623b11.
Keywords: daily life; definition; meter and music; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 October 2004@01:06:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; augmented notes and keywords) on 4 October 2004@03:46:56.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 4 October 2004@06:39:48.
David Whitehead on 17 August 2011@07:51:45.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 23 December 2013@06:50:11.
Catharine Roth on 28 December 2013@00:15:07.
Catharine Roth (translated title) on 30 November 2014@00:10:27.
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