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Headword:
*)attaga=s
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.
*)attaga=s: ei)=dos o)rne/ou, o(\ ta\ limniw/dh kai\ lei=a xwri/a katabo/sketai. dio\ kai\ *maraqw=na/ fhsin au)to\n e)/xein *)aristofa/nhs. e)kei= ga\r polu\ to\ o)/rneon. kai\ o( a)ttaga=s i)/tw, o( e)/xwn to\n leimw=na tou= *maraqw=nos. e)/sti de\ o( a)ttaga=s kata/stiktos poiki/lois pteroi=s. le/- getai de\ e)pi\ dou/lwn katestigme/nwn, e)peidh\ kai\ to\ o)/rneon kata/stikton. to\n phlo\n w(/sper a)ttaga=s turba/seis badi/zwn. tou=ton to\n a)ttaga=n h( sunh/qeia taghna/rion 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.
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