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Headword: Gampsous
Adler number: gamma,55
Translated headword: Curved
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

Bending and sloping clouds, or those which are like the appearances of birds. For they used to call birds gampsous ["crooked-taloned"]. Aristophanes [in] Clouds.[1]

Greek Original:

Gampsous: tas kamptousas kai plagious nephelas, ê tas ornithôn opsesin eikasmenas. gampsous gar ekaloun tas ornithas. Aristophanês Nephelais.

Notes:

Cf. generally gamma 52, gamma 53, gamma 54.
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 337, where the headword appears.

Keywords: comedy; definition; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 June 2002@21:06:05.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 18 June 2002@03:09:40.

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