Σαλαμάνδρα

salamander

Translated by Catharine Roth29 Oct 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

1 note · 26 words

An animal, like a lizard¹ in size, very cold by nature, so that it can enter a fire and quench the flame without itself being burned.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σαλαμάνδρα· ζῷον, ὡς σαύρα τὸ μέγεθος, ψυχρότατον τὴν φύσιν, ὡς καὶ τὸ πῦρ εἰσδυόμενον τὴν φλόγα σβεννύναι καὶ αὐτὸ μὴ πίμπρασθαι.

Betacode

*salama/ndra: zw=|on, w(s sau/ra to\ me/geqos, yuxro/taton th\n fu/sin, w(s kai\ to\ pu=r ei)sduo/menon th\n flo/ga sbennu/nai kai\ au)to\ mh\ pi/mprasqai.

Notes (1)

LSJ entry at web address 1.
For the present glossing cf. the scholia on Nicander, Alexipharmaca 537, and the Lexicon to Gregory of Nazianzus (on Gr.'s use of salama/ndrh in one of his Carmina moralia).
1sigma 158; and cf. phi 563. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

σ158ΣαῦραlizardAlso [sc. attested in the masculine] sauros: a creeping animal. "It otherwise resembled a lizard -- this is the creeping kind of animal. If one cuts it in the middle and separates [the parts], it draws its cut parts…

Neighbouring entries

σ44Σαλάκωνposeur, snob σ45Σαλακωνίαpretentiousness, snobbishness σ46Σαλαμάνδραsalamander σ47Σαλαμινία ναῦςSalaminia [war]ship σ48ΣαλαμίνιοςSalaminian

Revision history8 revisions · last 20 Sep 2014

20 Sep 2014cosmeticule — David Whitehead
20 Sep 2014coding — Catharine Roth
22 Dec 2013coding — Catharine Roth
19 Dec 2013expanded primary note; more keywords — David Whitehead
16 Aug 2011tweaked notes; more keywords — David Whitehead
25 Jul 2006augmented note — Catharine Roth
25 Jul 2006tweak — David Whitehead
1 Sep 2002added note — David Whitehead
29 Oct 2001Translated — Catharine Roth