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Headword:
All'
hapan
genoit'
an
êdê
Adler number: alpha,1073
Translated headword: but now anything might happen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ["But now anything might happen.] I applaud the old proverb. For one must look under every stone, lest a politician bite." The proverb [is as follows]: "under every stone a scorpion sleeps: watch out!"
Greek Original:All' hapan genoit' an êdê: tên paroimian d' epainô tên palaian. hupo lithôi gar panti pou chrê mê dakêi rhêtôr athrein. hê de paroimia: hupo panti lithôi skorpios heudei: phulasseo.
Notes:
cf.
upsilon 554.
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 527-530 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
For variants on this alleged proverb, attributed to the mid-C5 poetess
Praxilla of
Sikyon by the scholiast, see the drinking-song quoted by
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.695D = 15.50 #20 Kaibel ("Under every stone, my friend, there lurks a scorpion. Take care that it does not strike you; all kinds of trickery attend the unseen") and
Sophocles fr. 138 Nauck ("For in every stone a scorpion stands guard").
For another satirical theriomorphisation of ancient Athenian politicians -- this time as snakes -- see
Hyperides fr. 80 Jensen (at
pi 585).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; imagery; politics; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 March 2000@00:34:41.
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