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Headword: *taw\s eu)ph/lhc
Adler number: tau,99
Translated headword: fine-crested peacock
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the Median [kind],[1] and golden-winged, and a boastful bird.
Greek Original:
*taw\s eu)ph/lhc: o( *mhdiko/s, kai\ xruso/pteros, kai\ a)lazoniko\s o)/rnis.
Notes:
"Fine-crested peacock" comes from Babrius 65.1a (see gamma 183).
[1] Peacocks are in fact native to India. See LSJ at web address 1, and compare mu 884, tau 98.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 November 2000@20:47:19.
Vetted by:
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