Κυνοραϊσταί
dog-ticks
Translated by David Whitehead12 Dec 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] ticks. The ones sucking out the blood of dogs.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κυνοραϊσταί· κρότωνες. οἱ τῶν κυνῶν τὸ αἷμα ἐκπιπίζοντες.
Betacode
*kunorai+stai/: kro/twnes. oi( tw=n kunw=n to\ ai(=ma e)kpipi/zontes.
Notes
- Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa1217 Theodoridis), and cf. also in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 17.300, where this term appears in the pathetic description of Odysseus' faithful but neglected old dog Argos [Myth, Place] (web address 1). See also kappa 2719.
An affliction of foxes as well as dogs: see the Aesop fable recounted in Aristotle, Rhetoric 1393b22ff.