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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.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 11 July 2007@11:24:29.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 12 July 2007@02:56:44.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; tweaks) on 30 August 2011@07:30:49.
David Whitehead on 30 August 2011@07:31:14.
David Whitehead on 14 September 2013@05:30:09.
Catharine Roth (rearranged notes) on 6 June 2021@00:29:33.

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