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Headword: *stufoko/mpos
Adler number: sigma,1266
Translated headword: stick-boaster, stick-hitter
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the fighting quail. [So called] from hitting strongly. "Having been struck in the head by a stick-boaster."
Greek Original:
*stufoko/mpos: o( ma/ximos o)/rtuc. para\ to\ sterew=s ko/ptein. u(po\ stufoko/mpou th\n kefalh\n peplhgme/nos.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Birds 1299, with scholion; cf. Hesychius sigma2104, where the gloss is "a fighting cock".
Adler reports no mss variants in the Suda, but elsewhere -- the mss of Aristophanes and the scholia, and Pollux 7.136.4 and 9.107.7 -- there is ambiguity between stufoko/mpos and stufoko/pos; see the translated headwords above.
The reference is to the game of "quail-tapping," for which see omicron 642.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 April 2014@01:21:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 24 April 2014@03:11:45.


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