Texte grec :
| [12,2] πῶς δὲ οὐ τὸν ταῶ μᾶλλον ὁρῶντα θαυμάζει, καλὸν οὕτω καὶ
ποικίλον, ἔτι δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπαιρόμενον καὶ ἐπιδεικνύντα τὸ κάλλος
τῶν πτερῶν, ὅταν ἁβρύνηται πρὸς τὴν θήλειαν, ἀνακλάσας τὴν
οὐρὰν καὶ περιστήσας αὑτῷ πανταχόθεν ὥσπερ εὐειδὲς ἄντρον ἤ
τινα γραφῇ μιμηθέντα οὐρανὸν ποικίλον ἄστροις, σύν γε τῷ λοιπῷ
σώματι θαυμαστόν, ἐγγύτατα χρυσοῦ κυάνῳ κεκραμένου, καὶ δὴ
ἐν ἄκροις τοῖς πτεροῖς οἷον ὀφθαλμῶν ἐνόντων ἤ τινων δακτυλίων
τό τε σχῆμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἄλλην ὁμοιότητα;
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Traduction française :
| [12,2] Surely, however, the birds ought rather to admire
the peacock when they see him, beautiful and manycoloured as he is,
and then again truly when he lifts
himself up in pride and shows the beauty of his
plumage, as he struts before his hen with his tall
spread out and arched all about him like a fair-shaped
theatre or some picture of the heavens studded with
stars — a figure well deserving of admiration for the
colouring also, which is nearest to gold blended with
dark blue ; and then too on the tips of his feathers
there are eyes, as it were, or markings like rings both
in shape and in their general similitude.
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