ὅσα ἦν νενοσσευμένα ὀρνίθων γένεα → as many species of birds as had their nests, all the other kinds of birds which had been hatched
thorn: P. and V. θάμνος, ὁ, Ar. and V. ἄκανθα, ἡ (Soph., Fragment), παλίουρος, ὁ (Euripides, Cyclops 394).