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pāvo , 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
I.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.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Old Testament, 1 Kings, 10.22
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.806
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.43
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.5
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 7.16.5
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 8.11
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 8.11.10
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 14.67
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