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Headword: Ναυτίλος
Adler number: nu,85
Translated headword: nautilus, seaman
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The fish,[1] and the sailor.[2]
Greek Original:
Ναυτίλος: ὁ ἰχθύς, καὶ ὁ ναύτης.
Notes:
[1] The paper nautilus, Argonauta argo, "a cephalopod mollusc fabled to sail by spreading its membranous arms" (LSJ s.v.). See Wikipedia entry at web address 1.
[2] Poetic (though also in Herodotus) for ναύτης ; similarly glossed in the Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler). See also nu 83, nu 84.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; historiography; poetry; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 August 2009@23:54:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 9 August 2009@05:10:19.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 10 August 2009@01:02:10.
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