Πτῶκα
cowering, cowerer
Translated by William Hutton26 Sep 2013Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] cowardly. Also [sc. attested is the plural] 'cowerers', [meaning] gazelles, or fawns of a deer, or hares.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πτῶκα· δειλόν. καὶ πτῶκας, δορκάδας, ἢ ἐλάφου νεβροὺς ἢ λαγῳούς.
Betacode
*ptw=ka: deilo/n. kai\ ptw=kas, dorka/das, h)\ e)la/fou nebrou\s h)\ lagw|ou/s.
Notes
- = Synagoge pi773, Photius pi1491 Theodoridis, and cf. Hesychius pi4263. The primary headword is the accusative singular of the noun/adjective
ptw/c (which is given its own entry at pi 3048); the secondary headword is the accusative plural of the same noun.
Some or all of this entry probably derives from commentary on Homer, Iliad 22.310, where the primary headword occurs, but there are other attestations for which scholia and other commentary approximate its content, e.g. scholia to Aeschylus, Eumenides 326; Lexicon of the Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus pi188 (in reference to PG 1282.6); Lexicon of the Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus pi183 (on Oration 43.12.2); scholia to Lycophron, Alexandra 930. Adler also cites Anecdota Graeca (Cramer) 2.482.34.
The cited accusative plural, too, is presumably extracted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Theocritus, Idylls 1.110.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 28 Apr 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- expanded note; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaks, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton