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NOMI DI SERPENTE IN NICANDRO. DRIINO/CHELIDRO IDRO E CHERSIDRO.
2015
the aim of this paper is to argue that the snake called dryinas should be identified only with another snake, the chelydrus, and not with the more famous hydrus, as is written in Nicander’s Theriaká v. 414. In fact this verse is an interpolation
L’ASPIDE SANGUINARIA: ESEGESI DI UN PASSO DEI THERIAKÁ DI NICANDRO (vv. 157-89)
2015
In a passage of Nicander’s Theriaká on the snake called aspis the adjective ἀμυδρότατον is attested (Th. 158). The aim of this paper is to define the meaning of this adjective. Ancient and modern scholars have variously interpreted it: some of them referred ἀμυδρότατον to the laziness and sluggishness of the animal, others to its perniciousness. However, both these meanings are quite atypical: ἀμυδρός usually means ‘weak, faint, obscure’. Here I suggest that the value of the adjective ἀμυδρότατον in Th. 158 should be related to its original meaning.