αι230Αἶνος
tale, story
[Meaning a] proverbial story. Or [intended as] praise, and encomium. There is a certain tale: how a man and not a man killed me, a bird and not a bird, but just the same a bird, while sitting on a branch and not a…
Αἶνος· λόγος παροιμιώδης. ἢ ἔπαινος, καὶ ἐγκώμιον. αἶνός τίς ἐστιν· ὡς ἀνήρ τε καὶ οὐκ ἀνήρ, ὄρνιθα κοὐκ ὄρνιθα, ὄρνιθα δ' ὅμως, ἐπὶ ξύλου με κοὐ ξύλου καθημένην, λίθῳ τε κοὐ λίθῳ…
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