Κῆρυξ

herald

Translated by Catharine Roth30 Oct 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

12 words

[In reference to] a cockerel/rooster. But for a third time [he/she/it] sings.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κῆρυξ· ὁ ἀλεκτρυών. τρίτον δὲ ᾄδει.

Betacode

*kh=ruc: o( a)lektruw/n. tri/ton de\ a)/|dei.

For this headword see already kappa 1550.
The initial glossing of the present entry, not commented on by Adler, stems from Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 30-31 ("time to go, as the herald has just crowed the second time, as we were setting out": web address 1); a scholiast there glosses 'herald' with 'cockerel/rooster'. As regards the additional sentence, Jonathan Toup (1713–1785) associated it with Mark 14.72, where Peter denies Christ three times before the cock crows twice (web address 2).