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English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A jaundice, Hp.Aph.4.62(pl.), Morb.2.38, Int.35(pl.), etc.    II a bird of a yellowish-green colour, by looking at which a jaundiced person was cured—the bird died! Plin.HN30.94 (who identifies it with galgulus, the golden oriole).

German (Pape)

[Seite 1249] ὁ, die Gelbsucht, Hipp. u. a. Medic. – Auch ein gelber Vogel, dessen Anblick, wie man glaubte, die Gelbsucht heilte, Plin. H. N. 30, 18.