Μώνυχα ζῷα

uncloven-hoofed animals, single-hoofed animals

Translated by Kyle Helms2 May 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

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[sc. Examples include] horse, ass, mule, and if there is some other, [it is also included]. It has happened for these that they do not swim and they are called pack-animals.¹²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μώνυχα ζῷα· ἵππος, ὄνος, ὀρεύς, καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο. τούτοις συμβέβηκε μὴ νεῖν καὶ λοφύροις κεκλῆσθαι.

Betacode

*mw/nuxa zw=|a: i(/ppos, o)/nos, o)reu/s, kai\ ei)/ ti a)/llo. tou/tois sumbe/bhke mh\ nei=n kai\ lofu/rois keklh=sqai.

Notes (2)

From the epitome of Aristotle's History of Animals (cf. next note) by Aristophanes of Byzantium.
For uncloven-hoofed see mu 1335.
1In Aristotle, History of Animals 491a1, examples of pack-animals include the horse, ass, mule, ginnos (gi/nnos --offspring of mare and mule), and the Syrian wild-ass (the onager, see omicron 324). ↩
2"pack-animal" (here spelled lofu/rois in the dative plural) is normally spelled lo/fouros or lofou=ros (see LSJ at web address 1). ↩

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μ1335Μῶνυξsingle-hoofed, uncloven-hoofed[mw=nuc means the same as] monw/nuc. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] monw/nuxes i(/ppoi ["single-hoofed horses"].

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μ1332Μῶνsurely not?μ1333Μῶνsurely not?μ1334Μώνυχα ζῷαuncloven-hoofed animals, single-hoofed animals μ1335Μῶνυξsingle-hoofed, uncloven-hoofed μ1336Μωπεύεινto criticize

Revision history4 revisions · last 29 Nov 2014

29 Nov 2014translated title, expanded note — Catharine Roth
15 Sep 2013tweaked note — Catharine Roth
28 May 2013Revised — David Whitehead
3 May 2009augmented primary note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
2 May 2009Translated — Kyle Helms

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