Ἴτυξ

ityx

Translated by David Whitehead27 Apr 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

2 words

A bird.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἴτυξ· ὄρνεον.

Betacode

*)/ituc: o)/rneon.

So too Photius and other lexica. But LSJ take the term to be a variant of i)=duc, which is itself another name for the iktis (iota 281); so Herodian, citing Alexandros of Myndos (FGrH 25 -- but this putative fragment is ignored there).