Meaning of Pegasus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. pegasus (a winged horse or a bird with a horse's head, suspected to live in Africa)
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2. A Roman cognomen — famously held by
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3. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
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4. Plotius Pegasus (a Roman senator and jurisconsult active under the Flavian dynasty)
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Examples

“Sunt mirae aves cornutae tragopanes et equinis auribus pegasi.”

[In Africa] there are wonderful birds: horned tragopans and pegasi with horse's ears.

“Aethiopia generat […] pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos pegasos vocant. 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley Æthiopia produces […] horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called pegasi.”

“Pegasos equino capite volucres et grypas aurita aduncitate rostri fabulosos reor, illos in Scythia, hos in Aethiopia. 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley”

“Illius caeli ales est pegasus, sed haec ales equinum nihil praeter aures habet.”

In that climate lives the bird pegasus, but this winged creature has nothing equine except ears.

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