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Headword:
*li/bussa
o)/rnis
Adler number: lambda,497
Translated headword: Libyan bird
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A term for] the ostrich.[1]
In the Fables: "but the Libyan ostrich when caught turned away and [...] them both."[2]
Greek Original:*li/bussa o)/rnis: h( strouqoka/mhlos. e)n *muqikoi=s: a)lla\ *li/bussa strouqo\s a(liskome/nh pla/ze kai\ a)mfote/rous.
Notes:
[1] cf.
lambda 495.
[2] Fragment of a fable in elegiac meter, included by Crusius in an appendix to his edition of
Babrius, p. 221. ("Both" here is the object of a missing transitive verb, whatever else may be missing.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 September 2001@00:42:49.
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