Εὐλαί
maggots
Translated by Catharine Roth26 Jun 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] worms.1
Also [sc. attested is]eu)lai/wn ["of maggots"], [meaning] of worms.2
Pheretima, the queen of Cyrene, paid the penalty for what she had done; for "while still living she boiled over with maggots."3 That is, with worms.
As Babrius says in his Fables.4
And elsewhere: "while still alive he boiled over with evil beasts, some say with maggots, but others that [it was] not with these, but rather with lice; or thus [it should be read], with lice at any rate."5
Also [sc. attested is]
Pheretima, the queen of Cyrene, paid the penalty for what she had done; for "while still living she boiled over with maggots."3 That is, with worms.
As Babrius says in his Fables.4
And elsewhere: "while still alive he boiled over with evil beasts, some say with maggots, but others that [it was] not with these, but rather with lice; or thus [it should be read], with lice at any rate."5