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Headword:
Deiloteros
tou
parakuptontos
Adler number: delta,319
Translated headword: more cowardly than a peeper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference those who are extremely cowardly. For there was a certain cowardly man who, peeping out of a cave and seeing Heracles, was turned to stone; and the stone which looks like a person still remains to this day. For he was afraid of Heracles and went down into the cave and because of his cowardice he died.[1]
And [sc. there is] another proverb: "more cowardly than Peisander".[2] "There Peisander came asking to see his soul, which had left him when he was alive." For he was excessively cowardly.[3]
Greek Original:Deiloteros tou parakuptontos: epi tôn sphodra deilôn. anêr gar tis egeneto deilos, hos parakupsas ek spêlaiou kai idôn ton Hêraklea apelithôthê: kai diemeinen eti kai nun ho lithos anthrôpoeidês. phoboumenos gar ton Hêraklea katedu eis spêlaion kai dia deilian apethane. kai hetera paroimia: Deiloteros Peisandrou. entha kai Peisandros êlthe deomenos psuchên idein, hê zônt' ekeinon proulipe. deilos gar ên kath' huperbolên.
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Keywords: aetiology; biography; comedy; daily life; ethics; mythology; politics; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 May 2004@22:10:10.
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