Σκνίψ
gnat; flea; springtail
Translated by William Hutton26 Feb 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκνίψ· ζῷον κωνωπῶδες. καὶ σκνῖπες ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῶν. καὶ παροιμία· Σκνὶψ ἐκ χώρας. ἐπὶ τῶν ταχὺ μετακινούντων ἡ παροιμία· ἔστι γὰρ ὁ σκνὶψ ζῷον μικρὸν ξυλοφάγον.
Betacode
*skni/y: zw=|on kwnwpw=des. kai\ skni=pes e)n pa=si toi=s o(ri/ois au)tw=n. kai\ paroimi/a: *skni\y e)k xw/ras. e)pi\ tw=n taxu\ metakinou/ntwn h( paroimi/a: e)/sti ga\r o( skni\y zw=|on mikro\n culofa/gon.
Notes (3)
- cf. sigma 633.
- 1= Synagoge sigma128; Photius, Lexicon sigma350 Theodoridis; cf. Orion [Author, Myth] 148.32-34 (= Etymologicum Magnum 718.16-18) ↩
- 2Psalm 104.31 LXX (105:31 KJV). ↩
- 3= essentially Photius sigma351 Theodoridis (from Pausanias the Atticist sigma15) and already Zenobius 5.35, except that they have
metaphdo/ntwn ('leaping around') which the Suda changes tometakinou/ntwn ('moving around'). Zenobius also gives the proverb itself asskni\y e)n xw/ra| ("a gnat in [the] country"), adds 'that leaps from place to place' at the end of the explanation, and attributes the phrase to Strattis (fr. 70 Kock, now 74 K.-A.). ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 26 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- expanded n.3 another keyword — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton