Aristotle Greek Lexicon κίγκλος

κίγκλος

kigklos

dabchick, Podiceps ruficollis

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

κίγκλος, , prob. A. dabchick, Podiceps ruficollis, Ar. Fr. 29, Autocr. 1, Anaxandr. 41.66, Arist. HA 593b5: prov., κίγκλου πτωχότερος ‘poor as a church mouse’, because it had no nest of its own, Men. 221, cf. Ael. NA 12.9:—Suid. has κίγκαλος, but κιγκάλους is unmetrical as a fish-name in Numen. ap. Ath. 7.326a.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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