title: Considerations on Two Сruces Philologorum (Ael. NA 15, 25)
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metadata.value: Kaczyńska, Elwira
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T16:49:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T16:49:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kaczyńska E. Considerations on Two Сruces Philologorum (Ael. NA 15, 25). Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (1), 32–39.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33754
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The present article aims to elucidate an interesting narrative that forms a portion of Aelian’s
  paradoxographic work Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος (On the Characteristics of Animals, Lat. De natura
  animalium). The passage under discussion describes some horned animals of oriental origin
  that were involved in the annual fighting contests during a one-day competition held on the
  initiative of a “great king of India” — probably Chandragupta (4th–3rd c. BC), the founder
  of the Maurya dynasty. Aelian’s chapter (NA 15, 15) was perhaps taken from Megasthenes’s
  Ἰνδικά (Description of India). The passage includes two hapax legomena referring to two species
  of animals: †μέσοι† and †ὕαιναι†. The first of these should be identified with the Ladakh
  urial (Ovis orientalis vignei Blyth); cf. Prasun məṣé ‘ram, urial’ (< Vedic mēṣá- m. ‘ram’). Aelian’s
  exact description of the horned animals called †ὕαιναι† clearly demonstrates that the alleged
  “striped hyena” (Gk. ὕαινα) must represent the chinkara, i. e., the Indian gazelle (Gazella
  bennettii Sykes). The Indo-Aryan term for ‘chinkara’ (Ved. hariṇá- m ‘Indian gazelle’, hariṇī́- f.
  ‘female gazelle’; cf. Pa. and Pk. hariṇa- m., hariṇī- f.) suggests that the corrupted form in Aelian’s
  passage should be emended as ὑάριναι [hyárinai]. This seems a near-optimal adaptation
  of the Pali or Prakrit appellative háriṇā pl. ‘chinkaras’.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The present article is part of the research project entitled Greek-Oriental contacts in a comparative
  perspective, financed by the scholarly development fund of the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animal terminology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: borrowings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek scientific literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek vocabulary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hapax legomena
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language contact
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Middle Indo-Aryan languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Considerations on Two Сruces Philologorum (Ael. NA 15, 25)
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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