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|lshtext=<b>pāvo</b>: ōnis ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[late]] collat. form pāvus, i, Enn. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 75 P., or Ann. v. 15 Vahl.; Arn. 7, 215; Tert. Pall. 5; id. Anim. 33; Aus. Epigr. 69; id. Ep. 20, 10; Vulg. 3 Reg. 10, 22; [[whence]]<br /><b>I</b> fem. [[pava]], q. v.), m. cf. [[ταώς]], a [[peacock]], [[sacred]] to [[Juno]], Varr. L. L. 5, § 75 Müll.; id. R. R. 3, 6; Col. 8, 11; Plin. 10, 20, 22, § 43; Pall. 1, 28: [[cauda]] pavoni donata, Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18; cf. Lucr. 2, 806.—As a [[delicacy]], Juv. 1, 143; Cic. Fam. 9, 18, 20.—The [[male]], for the [[sake]] of [[distinction]], is called [[masculus]] [[pavo]], Col. 8, 11, 10; and the [[female]], [[femina]] [[pavo]], Gell. 7, 16, 5.—From the tails of peacocks [[fly]]-flaps were made; cf. Mart. 14, 67, and v. [[pavoninus]].