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Headword:
Attagas
Adler number: alpha,4307
Translated headword: partridge
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of bird,[1] which pastures upon marshes and flat regions. Hence
Aristophanes says that it inhabits
Marathon. For in that place the bird [is] plentiful. And let the partridge be the one inhabiting the plain of
Marathon.[2] It is the speckled partridge with multi-colored wings. The term is used for branded [
katestigmenôn] slaves, since the bird is also marked [
katestikton]. "Walking in mud like a revelling partridge."[3] Common parlance calls the partridge
tagênarion.
Attagas: eidos orneou, ho ta limniôdê kai leia chôria katabosketai. dio kai Marathôna phêsin auton echein Aristophanês. ekei gar polu to orneon. kai ho attagas itô, ho echôn ton leimôna tou Marathônos. esti de ho attagas katastiktos poikilois pterois. le- getai de epi doulôn katestigmenôn, epeidê kai to orneon katastikton. ton pêlon hôsper attagas turbaseis badizôn. touton ton attagan hê sunêtheia tagênarion kalei.
Notes:
[1] See already under
alpha 4306, and cf.
tau 10. (For present purposes "partridge" will suffice as a translation, but for a full ornithological note, and identification as the Black Francolin or Black Partridge, see Nan Dunbar's edition of
Aristophanes' Birds (Oxford 1995) 220-1.)
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 249 and 245 (web address 1 below).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 257 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; geography; imagery; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 March 2002@10:08:52.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@08:03:06.
David Whitehead (modified and augmented n.1; cosmetics) on 24 November 2003@03:21:12.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 27 April 2012@05:18:16.
David Whitehead on 2 September 2015@06:08:07.
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