χαραδριός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, a [[bird]], prob. the [[thickknee]] or [[Norfolk plover]], [[Charadrius oedicnemus]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>266</span>,<span class="bibl">1141</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Int.</span>37</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>593b15</span>, <span class="bibl">615a1</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Le.</span>11.19</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">De.</span>14.17(18)</span>; it was very greedy, hence [[proverb|prov.]] <b class="b3">χαραδριοῦ βίον ζῆν</b>, of a glutton, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>494b</span>; the sight of it was held to be a cure for the jaundice, cf. <span class="bibl">Hippon.52</span>, Plu.2.681c, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>17.13</span>.