Στυφοκόμπος
stick-boaster, stick-hitter
Translated by Catharine Roth24 Apr 2014Vetting: high1 revision
Translation
[Meaning] the fighting quail. [So called] from hitting strongly. "Having been struck in the head by a stick-boaster."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στυφοκόμπος· ὁ μάχιμος ὄρτυξ. παρὰ τὸ στερεῶς κόπτειν. ὑπὸ στυφοκόμπου τὴν κεφαλὴν πεπληγμένος.
Betacode
*stufoko/mpos: o( ma/ximos o)/rtuc. para\ to\ sterew=s ko/ptein. u(po\ stufoko/mpou th\n kefalh\n peplhgme/nos.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Birds 1299, with scholion; cf. Hesychius sigma2104, where the gloss is "a fighting cock".
Adler reports no mss variants in the Suda, but elsewhere -- the mss of Aristophanes and the scholia, and Pollux 7.136.4 and 9.107.7 -- there is ambiguity betweenstufoko/mpos andstufoko/pos ; see the translated headwords above.
The reference is to the game of "quail-tapping," for which see omicron 642.
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Revision history1 revision · last 24 Apr 2014
- tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth