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Headword: Σαλαμάνδρα
Adler number: sigma,46
Translated headword: salamander
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
An animal, like a lizard[1] in size, very cold by nature, so that it can enter a fire and quench the flame without itself being burned.
Greek Original:
Σαλαμάνδρα: ζῷον, ὡς σαύρα τὸ μέγεθος, ψυχρότατον τὴν φύσιν, ὡς καὶ τὸ πῦρ εἰσδυόμενον τὴν φλόγα σβεννύναι καὶ αὐτὸ μὴ πίμπρασθαι.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
For the present glossing cf. the scholia on Nicander Alexipharmaca 537, and perhaps (Adler suggests) scholia on Gregory of Nazianzus (PG 36.524c).
[1] sigma 158; and cf. phi 563.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; medicine; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 October 2001@18:52:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note) on 1 September 2002@06:12:41.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 25 July 2006@07:17:56.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 25 July 2006@11:38:46.
David Whitehead (tweaked notes; more keywords) on 16 August 2011@06:26:04.
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