A.bird, prob. the thickknee or Norfolk plover, Charadrius oedicnemus, Ar.Av.266,1141, Hp.Int.37, Arist.HA593b15, 615a1, LXXLe.11.19, De.14.17(18); it was very greedy, hence prov. χαραδριοῦ βίον ζῆν, of a glutton, Pl.Grg.494b; the sight of it was held to be a cure for the jaundice, cf. Hippon.52, Plu.2.681c, Ael.NA17.13.
χα^ραδρ-ιός , ὁ, a
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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