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[Sep. 1st, 2015|01:43 am] |
Если судить по Афинею, у древних греков были большие проблемы с улитками:
And Anaxilas says—
You are e'en more distrustful than a snail;
Who fears to leave even his house behind him.
And Achæus speaks of them, and says—
Can such a vapour strange produce
The snails, those horned monsters?
And an enigma, like a fishing-net, having reference to the snail, is often proposed at banquets, in these terms—
What is that spineless bloodless beast of the woods,
Who makes his path amid the humid waters.
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There are some snails which are called σέσιλοι. Epicharmus says—
Instead of all these animals, they have locusts;
But I hate above all things the shell of the sesilus.
And Apellas relates that the Lacedæmonians call the snail σέμελος. But Apollodorus,
in the second book of his Etymologies, says that there are some snails which are called κωλυσιδειπνοι,
interrupters of banquets. |
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