Μελεαγρίδες
guinea-fowl, meleagrids
Translated by David Whitehead9 Apr 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μελεαγρίδες· ὄρνεα, ἅπερ ἐνέμοντο ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει. λέγουσι δὲ οἱ μὲν τὰς ἀδελφὰς τοῦ Μελεάγρου μεταβαλεῖν εἰς τὰς μελεαγρίδας ὄρνιθας, οἱ δὲ τὰς συνήθεις Ἰοκάλλιδος τῆς ἐν Λέρνῃ παρθένου, ἣν τιμῶσι δαιμονίως.
Betacode
*meleagri/des: o)/rnea, a(/per e)ne/monto e)n th=| a)kropo/lei. le/gousi de\ oi( me\n ta\s a)delfa\s tou= *melea/grou metabalei=n ei)s ta\s meleagri/das o)/rniqas, oi( de\ ta\s sunh/qeis *)ioka/llidos th=s e)n *le/rnh| parqe/nou, h(\n timw=si daimoni/ws.
Notes (2)
- Also in Photius mu222 Theodoridis (with other references there, including Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.655B-E [= 6.71 Kaibel]); and cf. Hesychius mu665 for the opening sentence only.
For Meleager [Author, Myth] see no.1 under mu 469. In Apollodorus his mother Althaia and wife Kleopatra hang themselves after his death, while other unspecified women are transformed into birds. - 1Not that of Athens, surely (with which this material has no connection); but the location is left unspecified. ↩
- 2Iokallis is otherwise unattested. For Lerna cf. under lambda 302 and upsilon 57; however, in the present context some would emend the toponym to Leros. ↩
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- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead