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Headword: *trio/rxhs
Adler number: tau,995
Translated headword: buzzard
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The buzzard [is] a kind of hawk.
The tyrant of Sicily "[was] a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard, presenting his backside to all who wanted it. When he died, [Timaeus says that] his wife cried out to him in lamentation, 'What [did] I not [carnally do to] you? And what [did] you not [reciprocate to] me?'"[1]
Greek Original:
*trio/rxhs: i(e/rakos ei)=dos o( trio/rxhs. o(/ti o( tu/rannos *sikeli/as koino\s po/rnos, e(/toimos toi=s a)krateste/rois, koloio/s, trio/rxhs, pa/ntwn tw=n boulome/nwn toi=s o)/pisqen e)/mprosqen gegonw/s: o(\s o(/te a)pe/qane, th\n gunai=ka/ fhsi kataklaiome/nhn au)to\n ou(/tw qrhnei=n: ti/ d' ou)k e)gw\ se/; ti/ d' ou)k e)me\ su/;
Note:
[1] Polybius 12.15.2-3, on Agathocles. The translation has been largely taken over from alpha 117, to which the reader is referred for notes and bibliography. Cf. also tau 1188.
Keywords: biography; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; women; zoology
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 12 August 2001@02:39:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented and modified translation; cosmetics) on 12 August 2001@04:59:18.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 5 April 2010@06:29:05.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2014@06:41:43.

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