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Headword:
*tanagrai=oi
a)lektori/skoi
Adler number: tau,69
Translated headword: little Tanagraian cockerels, little Tanagraean cockerels
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one which are pugnacious and irascible, like human beings.[1]
Babrius [writes]: "there was a fight of little Tanagraean cockerels, which they say have a spirit like men."[2]
And [there is] a proverb: "a cock and an athlete from
Tanagra: these sing nobly." See the rest under 'cock'.[3]
*tanagrai=oi a)lektori/skoi: oi( maxhtai\ kai\ qumikoi/, w(s a)/nqrwpoi. *ba/brios: a)lektori/skwn h)=n ma/xh *tanagrai/wn, oi(=s fasin ei)=nai qumo\n w(/sper a)nqrw/pois. kai\ paroimi/a: a)lektruo/na kai\ a)qlhth\n *tanagrai=on. a)/|dontai de\ eu)genei=s ou(=toi. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| a)lektruo/na to\ lei=pon.
Notes:
[1] For
Tanagra, in Boeotia, see generally
tau 68. For
alektoriskos, diminutive of
alektor, see LSJ at web address 1.
[2]
Babrius 5.1-2.
[3]
alpha 1117.
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 December 2000@11:16:29.
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