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ὄρνιθι γὰρ καὶ τὴν τότ᾽ αἰσίῳ τύχην παρέσχες ἡμῖν → for it was by a good omen that you provided that past fortune to us
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English (LSJ)
Att. κιττός, ὁ,
A ivy, Hedera Helix, of three kinds, two climbing (μέλας and λευκός), and one creeping (also called ἕλιξ), Thphr.HP 3.18.6, cf. Dsc.2.179, h.Bacch.40; ἀτενής S.Ant.826 (lyr.); κισσοῦ στέφανος OGl49.7 (Egypt, iii B.C.); sacred to Dionysus, κισσῷ . . στεφανωθεὶς Διόνυσον θεραπεύει E.Ba.81 (lyr.); κύκλῳ δὲ περί σε κ. εὐπέταλος ἕλικι θάλλει Ar.Th.999: hence οἴνωψ (or οἰνωπός) S.OC674 (lyr.). II = κιρσός (Achaean), Hsch.