*)ortali/xwn: ei)=dos o)rne/wn oi( o)rta/lixoi. h)\ a)lektruo/nwn. *)ortali/xwn, o)rne/wn neognw=n. o)/rniqes droserw=n mhte/res o)rtali/xwn.
The headword, repeated in the epigram quoted in the entry (but probably extracted here from
Aeschylus or
Aristophanes), is genitive plural of the noun
o)rta/lixos (a diminutive of
o)rtali/s).
[1] Despite the attempt to call
o)rta/lixoi a particular kind of bird, the second gloss is correct: the word merely means 'young bird', and more generally 'young animal' (LSJ s.v).
Hesychius omicron1335 and the
scholia to
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 54, define them as 'hatchlings that have not yet flown'. The attempt to call
o)rta/lixoi a kind of bird is made again in
pi 3020 (following the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 871), while the
scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 13.10-13, offer 'hatchlings, or a kind of sparrow', and
Hesychius adds 'chickens' to his definition as hatchlings.
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.292.4 (
Agathias Scholasticus). See another quote from this epigram at
omicron 495.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords) on 1 February 2009@20:14:31.
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