- ὕαινα
- ὕαινα, ης, ἡ hyena (so Hdt. et al.; PAth 4, 12 [III A.D.]; Sir 13:18; Jer 12:9), named as an unclean animal whose flesh Israelites were not permitted to eat (but no specific prohibition in the OT) B 10:7 (for the extraordinary interpr. represented here s. Windisch ad loc; also Diod S 32, 12, 2, a report from mythological writers who maintain concerning the hyena ἄρρενας ἅμα καὶ θηλείας ὑπάρχειν καὶ παρʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀλλήλους ὀχεύειν=are now male and then female and in alternate years have intercourse w. one another; Aesop, Fab. 242; 243 P.=405; 406 H.; Cyranides p. 74, 14–16; Horapollo 2, 69). OKeller, Antike Tierwelt 1909–13, I 152–57; NHenkel, Studien zum Physiologus im Mittelalter ’76, 175 (reff.).—BHHW II 755. Pauly-W. Suppl. IV 1924, 761–68. DELG s.v. ὗς.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.