Why, the lover of horses will take just as much pleasure in the good points of Podargus, as in those of Æthe. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Originally, the bird was misclassified as a subspecies of the Australian Marbled Frogmouth, Podargus ocellatus. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Captain Stewart speaks in the strongest terms of the gallantry and zeal of Captain Robilliard, of the Podargus. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II] Reference
I got another specimen of the rare New Guinea kite (Henicopernis longicauda), a large new goatsucker (Podargus superciliaris), and a most curious ground-pigeon of an entirely new genus, and remarkable for its long and powerful bill. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
Then he cried to his horses, “Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
And thou, Podargus! prove thy generous race. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Then he cried to his horses, "Xanthus and Podargus, and you. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
S.ewart, of H.M.S. Dictator, detailing the particulars of a most gallant exploit, performed by him and the two sloops and the gun-brig named on the margin (Podargus, Calypso, and. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II] Reference
Podargus was an entire horse. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Podargus brachypterus, Gould. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Podargus! and ye generous pair. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
Podargus humeralis, VIG. and HORSF. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
His own, Podargus, had for yokefellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Swift Æthe and his own Podargus join'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
Then Menelaus his Podargus brings. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Podargus. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Tawny-shouldered Podargus. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
His horses: "Xanthus, and, Podargus, thou. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
I believe it is a Podargus or Night Hawk, ". From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
I believe it is a Podargus or Night Hawk. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
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