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Headword:
*libuko\n
o)/rneon
Adler number: lambda,495
Translated headword: Libyan bird
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning a big one. There being in Libya[1] many strange birds.
Greek Original:*libuko\n o)/rneon: a)nti\ tou= me/ga. w(s e)n *libu/h| pollw=n o)rni/qwn kai\ e)ktrape/lwn o)/ntwn.
Notes:
The headword phrase occurs in
Aristophanes,
Birds 65 (web address 1). Where a definite species is envisaged, the "Libyan bird" is an ostrich (
lambda 497), but here something fantastical is meant.
[1] See generally
lambda 493.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; geography; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 September 2001@04:41:19.
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