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Headword:
Σαῦρα
Adler number: sigma,158
Translated headword: lizard
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Also [sc. attested in the masculine] sauros: a creeping animal.[1]
"It otherwise resembled a lizard -- this is the creeping kind of animal. If one cuts it in the middle and separates [the parts], it draws its cut parts with a shaking motion, and the remaining parts come together again."[2]
But sauros [is also] the fish.[3]
Greek Original:Σαῦρα: καὶ Σαῦρος: ἑρπυστικὸν ζῷον. σαύρῳ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐμφερὴς ἐγίγνετο, ἑρπυστικὸν δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ζῷον γένος, ὃν εἰ τέμοι τις καὶ διασπάσει μέσον, ἕλκει μὲν αὑτοῦ σὺν κλόνῳ τὰ τμήματα, συνέρχεται δὲ καὶ πάλιν τὰ λείψανα. Σαῦρος δὲ ὁ ἰχθύς.
Notes:
cf. generally
sigma 46.
[1] cf.
epsilon 3078.
[2] Sternbach attributes these lines of iambic verse to the epigrammatist George of
Pisidia (C7 AD), frequently quoted in the Suda.
[3] The horse-mackerel: see LSJ s.v.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 February 2002@23:56:10.
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