Ὀρταλίχων
of chicks
Translated by Nick Nicholas1 Feb 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀρταλίχων· εἶδος ὀρνέων οἱ ὀρτάλιχοι. ἢ ἀλεκτρυόνων. Ὀρταλίχων, ὀρνέων νεογνῶν. ὄρνιθες δροσερῶν μητέρες ὀρταλίχων.
Betacode
*)ortali/xwn: ei)=dos o)rne/wn oi( o)rta/lixoi. h)\ a)lektruo/nwn. *)ortali/xwn, o)rne/wn neognw=n. o)/rniqes droserw=n mhte/res o)rtali/xwn.
Notes (2)
- The headword, repeated in the epigram quoted in the entry (but probably extracted here from Aeschylus or Aristophanes), is genitive plural of the noun
o)rta/lixos (a diminutive ofo)rtali/s ). - 1Despite the attempt to call
o)rta/lixoi a particular kind of bird, the second gloss is correct: the word merely means 'young bird', and more generally 'young animal' (LSJ s.v). Hesychius omicron1335 and the scholia to Aeschylus, Agamemnon 54, define them as 'hatchlings that have not yet flown'. The attempt to callo)rta/lixoi a kind of bird is made again in pi 3020 (following the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 871), while the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 13.10-13, offer 'hatchlings, or a kind of sparrow', and Hesychius adds 'chickens' to his definition as hatchlings. ↩ - 2Greek Anthology 5.292.4 (Agathias Scholasticus). See another quote from this epigram at omicron 495. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 22 Aug 2023
- added cross-reference n.2 — Ronald Allen
- tweaked note 2 — Catharine Roth
- small additions and adjustments — David Whitehead
- another note; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, keywords — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas