Λίς
lion
Translated by Catharine Roth12 Jun 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λίς· ὁ λέων. μῦθος· ἐς βίοτον κοινὸς ὄνῳ γένετ' ὠμοβόρος λίς.
Betacode
*li/s: o( le/wn. mu=qos: e)s bi/oton koino\s o)/nw| ge/net' w)mobo/ros li/s.
Notes (2)
- 1Epic/poetic noun, with the same or similar glossing in other lexica and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 17.109, where the word occurs in a simile (web address 1). Chantraine says that the word may have been borrowed independently into Greek and into Semitic. ↩
- 2See Crusius' edition of Babrius, p. 216 fr. 5. ↩
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) p. 617
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 Apr 2013
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- expanded note, added bibliography — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth