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Headword:
*persiko\s
o)/rnis
Adler number: pi,1377
Translated headword: Persian bird
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The cockerel, [sc. so called] on account of its crest. Alternatively because all the extravagances of a king used to be called Persian. And here in
Aristophanes there is nothing special about its being [called] Persian bird.[1]
On the Persian empire see under Assyrians.[2] For the enumeration of the Persian army see under Darics.[3]
*persiko\s o)/rnis: o( a)le/ktwr, dia\ th\n lofi/an. h)\ o(/ti ta\ polutelh= pa/nta, oi(=s basileu\s e)xrh=to, e)kalei=to *persika/. kai\ nu=n para\ *)aristofa/nei ou)k i)di/ws o)/rnis *persiko/s. zh/tei peri\ *persw=n a)rxh=s e)n tw=| *)assu/rioi. zh/tei a)ri/qmhsin *persikou= stratou= e)n tw=| *dareikou/s.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; geography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 February 2004@10:17:14.
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