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Headword:
Mus
arti
pittês
geuomenos
Adler number: mu,1468
Translated headword: a mouse just now tasting pitch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who begin boldly and shamelessly but are suddenly shown to be cowards.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: when a mouse has reappeared, he is crafty in his ways.[2]
Greek Original:Mus arti pittês geuomenos: epi tôn prôiên men tolmêrôn kai anaidôn, athroon de deilôn anaphanentôn. lusis oneirou: Mus d' au phaneis endolos en tropois pelei.
Notes:
[1] For other explanations see however
mu 1477 and in the later paroemiographers.
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 July 2009@05:51:46.
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