Ὄφεις παρείας
reddish-brown snakes
Translated by Catharine Roth27 Jul 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Those which have raised cheeks [pareiai/ ]. They are thought to be gentle and not to harm humans, but to eat vipers and to be sacred in the mysteries.1
Also [attested is]o)fei/dion ["little snake"] in the diminutive.2
Interpretation of a dream: treading on snakes destroys the goads of one's enemies.3
Also [attested is]
Interpretation of a dream: treading on snakes destroys the goads of one's enemies.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄφεις παρείας· τοὺς ἐπηρμένας ἔχοντας τὰς παρειάς. δοκοῦσι δὲ ἤπιοι εἶναι καὶ μὴ ἀδικεῖν ἀνθρώπους· ἐσθίειν δὲ τοὺς ἔχεις καὶ εἶναι τῶν μυστηρίων ἱεροί. καὶ Ὀφείδιον, ὑποκοριστικῶς. λύσις ὀνείρου· ὄφεις πατεῖν τὰ κέντρα τῶν ἐχθρῶν λύει.
Betacode
*)/ofeis parei/as: tou\s e)phrme/nas e)/xontas ta\s pareia/s. dokou=si de\ h)/pioi ei)=nai kai\ mh\ a)dikei=n a)nqrw/pous: e)sqi/ein de\ tou\s e)/xeis kai\ ei)=nai tw=n musthri/wn i(eroi/. kai\ *)ofei/dion, u(pokoristikw=s. lu/sis o)nei/rou: o)/feis patei=n ta\ ke/ntra tw=n e)xqrw=n lu/ei.
Notes (3)
- 1Likewise in Photius, Lexicon omicron706 Theodoridis; similarly in other lexica and in a scholion on Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 690, where the headword phrase (in the accusative plural) occurs (web address 1); cf. pi 585. ↩
- 2Copied from here to omicron 998, where this form would belong in alphabetical order. ↩
- 3From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251). Not in manuscripts AF; in the margin of M, and after omicron 1007 in V. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- ο998Ὀφείδιονmini-serpent, snakelet[no gloss]
- π585Παρεῖαι ὄφειςbrown snakesCertain snakes are called [brown] because of having large cheeks. Hyperides in the [speech] Against Demades says: "politicians are like snakes, for while all snakes are hateful and some of them, the vipers, harm men,…
- π748ΠάσσαλοςstakeInterpretation of a dream: "holding nails, see the tortures of your enemies."
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