The corpus record

σᾱπέρδ-ης

saperdes · ὁ

the fish κορακῖνος

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

the fish κορακῖνος, great Nile-perch, Tilapia nilotica

the fish κορακῖνος, prob. the great Nile-perch, Tilapia nilotica, Hp. Int. 25, Ar. Frr. 414,686, Archipp. 26; a Pontic fish acc. to Archestr. Fr. 38.3; σ. τῶν ἐκ τῆς λίμνης PCair.Zen. 680.33 (iii B.C.); found in the Maeander, Porph. Abst. 3.5; both the κορακῖνος and the πλατίστακος were called σ. acc. to Parmeno ap. Ath. 7.308f; cf. σαπερδίς.

In the wild

σαπέρδης · saperdēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4950)
σαπέρδην · saperdēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4949)

Where it came from

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