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Headword:
*xhnalw/phc
Adler number: chi,283
Translated headword: goose-fox
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of bird.[1]
This was also a word applied to Lysistratos, who was slandered for softness;[2] [he was] also poor and a dice-player in the Cholargians'
agora. Cholargeis [is] a deme of Attica.[3]
*xhnalw/phc: ei)=dos o)rne/ou. ou(/tw de\ e)le/geto kai\ *lusi/stratos, o(\s e)pi\ malaki/a| diebe/blhto: pe/nhs kai\ au)to\s kai\ kubeuth\s e)n a)gora=| *xolarge/wn. *xolargei=s de\ dh=mos th=s *)attikh=s.
Notes:
[1] Perhaps from
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 1295, where the headword appears (web address 1). If a real species of bird is in question, it has been variously identified as the Egyptian goose
Alopochen aegyptiacus or the Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferruginea: see Dunbar 641.
[2] Moral weakness, effeminacy.
[3] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 855, where this individual and his deme (again at
chi 378) are mentioned. See web address 2.
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; economics; ethics; geography; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 October 2003@07:38:29.
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