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Headword: Aire plêktron
Adler number: alphaiota,284
Translated headword: raise a spur
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
That is, a defensive weapon. The metaphor [comes] from cocks; for they too have spurs with which they fight. We call these [spurs] the kentra of the birds; others [call them] plektra. But plektra are the bronze [spikes] which are attached to the [sc. natural] plektra of the cocks.
Greek Original:
Aire plêktron: toutestin hoplon amuntêrion. hê metaphora apo tôn alektruonôn: kakeinoi gar echousi plêktra, en hois machontai: ha hêmeis kentra legomen tôn ornithôn, hoi de plêktra. plêktra de eisi ta emballomena tois plêktrois tôn alektruonôn ta chalka.
Note:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 759, where the headword phrase -- in full, 'raise a spur, if you are fighting' -- occurs (web address 1); cf. pi 1752.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; imagery; medicine; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 March 2003@01:26:08.
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David Whitehead (added x-ref; cosmetics) on 2 March 2003@05:57:53.
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Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 8 August 2010@17:13:31.
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