Lexicon / G8556
ὀρτυγομήτρα
ortugomētra
  • a mother-quail

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Glosses: a mother-quail

a bird which migrates with the quails , perhaps the land-rail , ludicrously applied to Latona, the Ortygian mother (compare Ὀρτυγία)), (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)