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ὅσοι λέγουσι θῆλυν ἔλαφον κέρατα οὐ φύειν, οὐκ αἰδοῦνται τοὺς τοῦ ἐναντίου μάρτυρας, Σοφοκλέα μὲν εἰπόντα

νομὰς τέ τις κεροῦσσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀρθίων πάγων
καθεῖρπεν ἔλαφος:
[p. 193] καὶ πάλιν

ἄρασα μύξας καὶ κερασφόρους
στόρθυγγας εἷρφ᾽ ἕκηλος.
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ὁ τοῦ Σοφίλλου ἐν τοῖς Ἀλεάδαις: ὁ δὲ Εὐριπίδης ἐν τῇ Ἰφιγενείᾳ

ἔλαφον δ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν χερσὶν ἐνθήσω φίλαις
κεροῦσσαν, ἣν σφάζοντες αὐχήσουσι σὴν
σφάζειν θυγατέρα.
ἐν δὲ τοῖς Τημενίδαις τὸν Ἡράκλειον ἆθλον κέρατα ἔχειν ὁ αὐτὸς Εὐριπίδης φησί, τὸν τρόπον τόνδε ᾄδων

ἦλθεν δ᾽
ἐπὶ χρυσόκερων ἔλαφον, μεγάλων
ἄθλων ἕνα δεινὸν ὑποστάς,
κατ᾽ ἔναυλ᾽ ὀρέων ἀβάτους ἐπί τε
λειμῶνας ποίμνιά τ᾽ ἄλση.
ὁ δὲ Θηβαῖος μουσοποιὸς ἔν τινι τῶν ἐπινικίων ὑμνεῖ λέγων

Εὐρυσθέος ἔντὐ ἀνάγκα πατρόθεν
χρυσόκερων ἔλαφον θήλειαν ἄξονθ᾽.
καὶ Ἀνακρέων ἐπὶ θηλείας φησίν

οἷά τε νεβρὸν νεοθηλέα
γαλαθηνόν, ὅς τ᾽ ἐν ὕλῃ κεροέσσης
ὑπολειφθεὶς ὑπὸ μητρὸς ἐπτοήθη.
πρὸς δὲ τοὺς μοιχῶντας τὸ λεχθὲν καὶ μέντοι καὶ φάσκοντας δεῖν ἐροέσσης γράφειν ἀντιλέγει κατὰ [p. 194] κράτος Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος, καὶ ἔμεγε αἱρεῖ τῇ ἀντιλογίᾳ.

Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 1. Aelian. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1864. Keyboarding.

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