Ὁλόφωνος

full-voiced

Translated by Catharine Roth5 Dec 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Descriptive of] a cockerel/rooster. So Cratinus [sc. uses the word].¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὁλόφωνος· ὁ ἀλεκτρυών. οὕτω Κρατῖνος.

Betacode

*(olo/fwnos: o( a)lektruw/n. ou(/tw *krati=nos.

An alternative interpretation of the headword is 'all voice and nothing else'.
1Cratinus fr. 259 Kock (279 K.-A); cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.374D (9.16 Kaibel). Same entry in Photius (omicron252 Theodoridis); fuller one already in Hesychius omicron644. ↩

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