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Headword: Tahôs
Adler number: tau,98
Translated headword: Peacock
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Tereus, from guarding [terein] Io.[1] It has a rough breathing and a circumflex accent.[2]
Greek Original:
Tahôs: ho Têreus. para to têrein tên Iô. dasunetai de kai perispatai.
Notes:
[1] From scholion on Aristophanes Birds 102, where the hoopoe claims to be Tereus from Sophocles' play (link 1 to Aristophanes below). See also tau 531. For Io see iota 453.
[2] That is, it is pronounced tah-os. Compare tau 99, and see link 2 below to LSJ for reference to the Attic pronunciation.
Associated internet addresses:
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Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 November 2000@20:50:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; restorative and other cosmetics) on 1 September 2002@07:08:00.


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