Λίβυσσα ὄρνις
Libyan bird
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Sep 2001Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λίβυσσα ὄρνις· ἡ στρουθοκάμηλος. ἐν Μυθικοῖς· ἀλλὰ Λίβυσσα στρουθὸς ἁλισκομένη πλάζε καὶ ἀμφοτέρους.
Betacode
*li/bussa o)/rnis: h( strouqoka/mhlos. e)n *muqikoi=s: a)lla\ *li/bussa strouqo\s a(liskome/nh pla/ze kai\ a)mfote/rous.
Notes (2)
- 1cf. lambda 495. ↩
- 2Fragment of a fable in elegiac meter, included by Crusius in an appendix to his edition of Babrius, p. 221. ("Both" here is the object of a missing transitive verb, whatever else may be missing.) ↩
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- tweaking — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Catharine Roth