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Headword: *plh=ktron
Adler number: pi,1752
Translated headword: spike, spur
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] that which, of bronze, they attached to cocks in their fighting.
And [there is] a proverb: "raise a defensive spike/spur"; for they also have [sc. natural] spikes/spurs, with which they fight.
So[1] plektra [are] the bronze things put on to the cocks.
Greek Original:
*plh=ktron: o(/per perieti/qesan toi=s a)lektruo/si xalkou=n e)n tw=| ma/xesqai. kai\ paroimi/a: ai)=re plh=ktron a)munth/rion: ka)kei=noi ga\r e)/xousi plh=ktra, oi(=s ma/xontai. plh=ktra ou)=n ta\ e)mballo/mena xalka= toi=s a)lektruo/si.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Birds 759 (web address 1), with scholion (here conflated in the 'proverb'); see already at alphaiota 284.
[1] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in ms A.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; proverbs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 August 2010@06:58:24.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 8 August 2010@17:14:29.
David Whitehead (typo) on 9 August 2010@03:08:58.
David Whitehead on 6 October 2013@08:06:48.

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