τίγρις
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
English (LSJ)
ἡ, Philem.47, Plu.2.144d, also ὁ, Alex.204, Arist.HA607a4, Thphr.HP5.4.7: gen.
A τίγριος Arist. and Thphr. ll. cc.; τίγριδος Opp.C.3.340; acc. τίγριν: pl. nom. τίγρεις, and τίγριδες D.C.54.9, 76.7; τίγριες Opp.C.1.323; τίγρητες Ar.Byz.Epit.95.10 (acc. to Choerob. in Theod.1.160 H. the river-name is both Τίγρης -ητος and Τίγρις -ιδος):—tiger, Felis tigris; Seleucus sent one to Athens, ὁ Σελεύκου τίγρις Alex. l.c., cf. Philem. l.c.
