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Headword:
Têlegonos
Adler number: tau,485
Translated headword: Telegonos, Telegonus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
[The man] who first discovered bird-divination: [the fact] that for instance if a weasel or even a snake appeared in the house, this is its meaning.
Greek Original:Têlegonos: onoma kurion. hos prôtos epheure tên oiônistikên: hoti hoion, ei en têi stegêi ephanê galê ê kai ophis, tode sêmainei.
Note:
A faulty extract from
omicroniota 163: there T. is the first
writer on bird-divination (and weasels and snakes come under a different heading; cf.
xi 43).
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; definition; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 May 2004@10:05:51.
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