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Headword:
Μελιταῖον
κυνίδιον
Adler number: mu,519
Translated headword: Maltese lap dog
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "For some dogs are trackers, others go head-to-head with beasts; some watch the house on guard over possessions, others [are kept] for pleasure, for instance Maltese lap dogs.[1]
Also [sc. attested are] Honey-pie dogs, ones reared for pleasure.[2]
Greek Original:Μελιταῖον κυνίδιον. τῶν γὰρ κυνῶν οἱ μὲν ἰχνευταί, οἱ δὲ ὁμόσε τοῖς θηρίοις χωροῦσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ φυλακῇ τῶν κτημάτων οἰκουροί, οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ τέρψει, ὡς τὰ Μελιταῖα κυνίδια. καὶ Μελιτηροὶ κύνες, οἱ ἐπὶ τέρψει τρεφόμενοι.
Notes:
[1]
Artemidorus 2.11. For other references to them see LSJ s.v.
Melitaios.
[2] [Occasion for mentioning these arises from the similarity between
Μελιταῖοι ("Maltese") and
μελιτηρός ("honey-sweet").] This phrase is also in the paroemiographer
Apostolius (11.24), who expands with the material already given here.
Translated by: Ross Scaife on 21 March 2002@20:39:35.
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