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Headword:
*paraicorou=sin
Adler number: pi,500
Translated headword: partridge look sharp!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes in
Broilers [says this].[1] Some explained [it as] a kind of game; but Euphronios[2] [is said] to call it proverbial, applying to those summoned quickly to come or go away.
Greek Original:*paraicorou=sin: *)aristofa/nhs *taghnistai=s. a)pe/dwkan de\ oi( me\n paidia=s ei)=do/s ti: *eu)fro/nios de\ paroimiwdw=s le/gesqai e)pi\ tw=n parakeleuome/nwn taxe/ws h(/kein h)\ a)palla/ttesqai.
Notes:
The headword, transmitted as
paraicorou=sin here in the Suda, as
paracorou=sin in
Apostolius 13.87, and as
paraico/rouson in
Photius pi230 Theodoridis, is reckoned to be a corruption of the phrase
pe/rdic o)/rouson; cf. LSJ s.v.
o)rou/w, 4.
[1]
Aristophanes fr. 523 Kock (512 K.-A.).
[2] An Alexandrian scholar (and poet); cf.
delta 1054,
kappa 1549,
mu 801,
chi 90.
Keywords: children; comedy; daily life; definition; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 July 2007@07:53:02.
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