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πτερόν , τό, (πέτομαι, πτέσθαι) mostly in pl.,
A.feathers, Od.15.527, Hdt.2.73, etc.: in sg., feather, E.Rh.618, Ar.Ach.584, 1105; πτεροῦ σῦριγξ quill, Hp.Fist.6; “τὰ ὦτα πτερῷ κνωμένοιςLuc.Salt.2; “ἀντὶ τριχῶν πτερὰ φύεινPl.Ti.91d (cf. Ar.Av.106); “ τῶν π. ἀποβολήPl.Phdr. 246d: prov., πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν π. misery is of varied plumage, i.e. manifold, A.Supp.329; τοῖς αὑτῶν π. ἁλίσκεσθαι to be shot with an arrow feathered from one's own plumes, 'hoist with one's own petard', Id.Fr.139; ἀλλοτρίοις π. ἀγάλλεσθαι pride oneself on 'borrowed plumes', Luc.Pro Merc.Cond.4; κείρευ πτερά 'have your wings clipped', Call.Epigr.47.8.
3. wings of a bat, Hdt.2.76; of insects, Arist.HA532a25, PA682b18, al.
II. any winged creature, as the Sphinx, E.Ph.806 (lyr.); a beetle, Ar.Pax76.
III. anything like wings or feathers: as
2. ἀέθλων πτερά, i.e. the crown of victory, which lifts the victor to heaven, Pi.O.14.24, cf.P.9.125.
3. sg., wings of the wind, dub. in S.Fr.23.3.
4. fan or parasol, Com. Adesp.1129.
5. π. ἱέρακος a hawk's wing, worn by the ἱερογραμματεύς in Egypt, D.S.1.87.
6. feathered arrow, E.Hel.76.
7. ploughshare, Lyc. 1072.
8. side-walls of Egyptian temples, Str.17.1.28, Plu.2.359a.
b. battlements, Procop.Aed.2.8.
c. portcullis, or drawbridge, in gateways, Sch.E.Ph.114.
9. πτερὰ Θετταλικά were the fluttering corners of a χλαμύς (v. “πτέρυξ” 11.4), Poll. 7.46.
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