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Headword:
Triorchês
Adler number: tau,995
Translated headword: buzzard
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The buzzard [is] a kind of hawk.
The tyrant of
Sicily "[was] a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard, presenting his backside to all who wanted it. When he died, [
Timaeus says that] his wife cried out to him in lamentation, 'What [did] I not [carnally do to] you? And what [did] you not [reciprocate to] me?'"[1]
Triorchês: hierakos eidos ho triorchês. hoti ho turannos Sikelias koinos pornos, hetoimos tois akratesterois, koloios, triorchês, pantôn tôn boulomenôn tois opisthen emprosthen gegonôs: hos hote apethane, tên gunaika phêsi kataklaiomenên auton houtô thrênein: ti d' ouk egô se; ti d' ouk eme su;
Note:
[1]
Polybius 12.15.2-3, on
Agathocles. The translation has been largely taken over from
alpha 117, to which the reader is referred for notes and bibliography. Cf. also
tau 1188.
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 12 August 2001@02:39:01.
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