Κνηκίας

tawny one

Translated by Catharine Roth21 Jan 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 30 words
[Meaning] the wolf.1
Babrius in the Fables [writes]: "But [the donkey,] released from pains and all discomfort, kicked the tawny one in the mouth and escaped."2 That is, the wolf.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κνηκίας· ὁ λύκος. Βάβριος ἐν τοῖς μυθικοῖς· ὁ δ' ἐκλυθεὶς πόνων τε κἀνίης πάσης, τὸν κνηκίαν χάσκωντα λακτίσας φεύγει. τουτέστι τὸν λύκον.

Betacode
*knhki/as: o( lu/kos. *ba/brios e)n toi=s muqikoi=s: o( d' e)kluqei\s po/nwn te ka)ni/hs pa/shs, to\n knhki/an xa/skwnta lakti/sas feu/gei. toute/sti to\n lu/kon.

Notes (2)

  1. 1See LSJ entry at web address 1. The headword knhki/as is attested only in Babrius (next note), but cf. Pausanias 6.10.7 for its Doric-dialect counterpart Knakias (one of a victorious chariot-team of horses commemorated in a statue that P. saw at Olympia). ↩
  2. 2Babrius 122.11-12; cf. Babrius 113.2 knhko\n . . . lu/kon. ↩

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κ1861Κνέφειat dusk, at twilightκ1862Κνῇscrapesκ1863Κνηκίαςtawny oneκ1864Κνηκίςwispκ1865Κνήμηshank, shin
Revision history4 revisions · last 2 Sep 2013
  1. tweaked note and link — Catharine Roth
  2. more keywords — David Whitehead
  3. augmented n.1; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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