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ἀτταγήν

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: attagḗn Transliteration B: attagēn Transliteration C: attagin Beta Code: a)ttagh/n

English (LSJ)

ῆνος, ὁ, = ἀτταγᾶς, Phoenicid.2.5, Arist.HA617b25, 633b1, Theophrastus Fragmenta 180.

Spanish (DGE)

v. ἀτταγᾶς.

German (Pape)

[Seite 389] ῆνος, ὁ, dasselbe, com. Ath. XIV, 652 d; Arist. H. A. 10, 36, von Atticisten verworfen.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ῆνος (ὁ) :
francolin (attagen Ionicus), oiseau.
Étymologie: c. ἀτταγᾶς.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἀττᾰγήν: ῆνος ὁ зоол. предполож. франколин (Tetrao bonasia) Arst.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἀτταγήν: ῆνος, ὁ, πτηνὸν κατὰ τὸ φαινόμενον διάφορον τοῦ ἀτταγᾶ, πιθ. εἶδος μελεαγρίδος, tetrao orientalis, Φοινικίδης ἐν «Μισουμένῃ» 1. Ἀριστ. Ἱστ. Ζ. 9. 26· τάσσεται μετὰ τῶν κονιστικῶν ὀρνίθων, τῶν ὀρνίθων... ὅσοι μὲν μὴ πτητικοί, ἀλλ’ ἐπίγειοι, κονιστικοί, οἷον ἀλεκτορίς, πέρδιξ, ἀτταγήν..., φασιανὸς ὁ αὐτ. 9. 50 ἐν τέλει· attagen Ionicus, περιζήτητον λίχνευμα παρὰ Ρωμαίοις, Ὁράτ. Ἐπῳδ. 2. 54, πρβλ. Μαρτιάλιν 13. 61: ― ὑποκορ. ἀτταγηνάριον, τό, Χοιροβ. 1. 43.

Greek Monotonic

ἀτταγήν: -ῆνος, ὁ, πτηνό, πιθ. είδος αγριόγαλου, Λατ. attagen Ionicus, σε Οράτ.

Middle Liddell


a bird, prob. a kind of grouse, attagen Ionicus, Hor.