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Headword:
Lagôi
peinônti
kai
plakountes
eis
suka
Adler number: lambda,28
Translated headword: for a starving hare even flatcakes [serve] as figs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb directed against those reckoning things as valuable in [a situation of] necessity.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: a hare appearing makes an unlucky path [of life].[2]
Greek Original:Lagôi peinônti kai plakountes eis suka: paroimia pros tous ta en anankêi polutelê logizomenous. lusis oneirou: phaneis lagôos dustucheis poiei tribous.
Notes:
[1] Though this iambic trimeter is classified here as a proverb it does not appear in the paroemiographers; cf. generally nevertheless Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.1406. (For hares in proverbs cf.
lambda 29,
lambda 30.)
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychos (
alpha 4251).
Keywords: daily life; dreams; food; imagery; meter and music; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 July 2004@07:46:54.
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