ἐρίθακος
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A robin-redbreast, Erithacus rubecula, Arist.HA592b22, Gp.15.1.22, etc.; cf. ἐριθεύς, ἐρίθυλος:—the bird described as imitative by Porph.Abst.3.4 must be different.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1028] ὁ, ein Vogel, der wie die Papageien u. Elstern sprechen lernte, Arist. H. A. 9, 49, auch ἐριθεύς.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐρίθακος: ὁ, πτηνὸν λάλον διδασκόμενον νὰ ψελλίζῃ λέξεις ὡς ὁ ψιττακός, «ὄρνεον μονῆρες καὶ μονότροπον» Σουΐδ. - Κατ’ Ἀριστοτέλ. (π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 9. 49Β, 4), μεταβάλλουσι δὲ καὶ οἱ ἐρίθακοι καὶ οἱ καλούμενοι φοινίκουροι ἐξ ἀλλήλων· ἔστι δὲ ὁ μὲν ἐρίθακος χειμερινόν, οἱ δὲ φοινίκουροι θερινοί, διαφέρουσι δὲ ἀλλήλων οὐθὲν ὡς εἰπεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἢ τῇ χρόᾳ μόνον· πρβλ. Ἀποσπ. τοῦ αὐτοῦ 241. 10. - Παροιμ., οὐ τρέφει μία λόχμη δύο ἐριθάκους, «ἔστι δὲ ὄρνεον ὑπὸ μέν τινων καλούμενον ἐριθεύς, ὑπὸ δὲ ἑτέρων ἐρίθυλος, ὑπὸ τῶν πλειόνων ἐρίθακος» Σχόλ. εἰς Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 922 (927)· - ὁ Adams νομίζει ὅτι ὁ ἐρίθακος εἶναι ἡ πυραλλίς, «πετρίτης».
