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Headword:
Kuôn
epi
phatnên
Adler number: kappa,2729
Translated headword: a dog at a manger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb in reference to those neither using [something] nor allowing others [to do so].
Greek Original:Kuôn epi phatnên: paroimia epi tôn mête chrômenôn mête allous eôntôn.
Notes:
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1282 Theodoridis, and similarly elsewhere.
Also at
eta 187, where the "dog" is grammatically a bitch.
Keywords: daily life; ethics; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 December 2000@05:09:29.
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