Πελεκάντι

to a woodpecker

Translated by Nick Nicholas1 Feb 2009Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 34 words
Dative.1 Perhaps it should be pronounced with barytone accent [recessive accent], like a)li/bas ["corpse"].2 Moreover, Koine has [the declension peleka/n], peleka=nos, Attic peleka=s, peleka/ntos, and Doric peleka=s, peleka=.3
It is a kind of bird.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πελεκάντι· δοτική. μήποτε βαρυτόνως προενεκτέον, ὡς ἀλίβας. πελεκὰν μέντοι, πελεκᾶνος κοινῶς, πελεκᾶς, πελεκάντος Ἀττικῶς. πελεκᾶς, πελεκᾶ Δωρικῶς. ἔστι δὲ εἶδος ὀρνέου.

Betacode
*peleka/nti: dotikh/. mh/pote baruto/nws proenekte/on, w(s a)li/bas. peleka\n me/ntoi, peleka=nos koinw=s, peleka=s, peleka/ntos *)attikw=s. peleka=s, peleka= *dwrikw=s. e)/sti de\ ei)=dos o)rne/ou.

Notes (3)

  1. 1The form appears in Aristophanes, Birds 883 (web address 1), as peleka=nti. ↩
  2. 2cf. alpha 1210, omicron 413. ↩
  3. 3Paraphrased from the scholia ad loc. In fact, LSJ glosses peleka=s, -a=ntos as the woodpecker, and peleka/n, -a=nos as the pelican. That said, translations often use "pelican" for this passage, e.g. O'Neill (web address 1). The claimed Doric form is not attested. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 17 Jan 2016
  1. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  5. cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — Nick Nicholas

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