Κάμηλος
camel
Translated by Catharine Roth28 Feb 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the animal [of that name].1
Aristophanes [writes]: "how, being a Mede, did he fly here without a camel?" For the Medes came into Greece by camel.2
Also [sc. attested is the term] kamelites, an ox so called.3
But a kamilos [is] a thick rope.4
Aristophanes [writes]: "how, being a Mede, did he fly here without a camel?" For the Medes came into Greece by camel.2
Also [sc. attested is the term] kamelites, an ox so called.3
But a kamilos [is] a thick rope.4