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Headword:
Hosa
mus
en
pissêi
Adler number: omicron,680
Translated headword: as many as a mouse in pitch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The proverb is applied to those who have won with great effort.[1] But it does not [come] from the creature [of this name]; rather, Mys ["Mouse"] was an athlete from Taras.[2] This man was a competitor at
Olympia[3] and took on many opponents; he received many blows and won with difficulty. This Mys, a boxer, won one victory in his 100 Olympiads.[4]
Hosa mus en pissêi: eirêtai hê paroimia epi tôn meta pollou kopou nenikêkotôn. ouk apo tou zôiou de, alla Mus egeneto athlêtês Tarantinos. houtos en Pissêi agônizomenos kai pros pollous echôn agônistas, pollas labôn plêgas molis enikêsen. houtos ho Mus puktês ôn epi tais r# olumpiasi mian enikêsen.
Notes:
[1] cf.
mu 1477.
[2] (cf. already, in brief,
mu 1466.) Taras/
Tarentum was a Spartan foundation in S Italy (
tau 112).
[3] The Greek says Pissa, which -- more usually as Pisa -- was an alternative name for the locale of
Olympia; hence the ambiguity with pitch, lower-case
pi/ssa.
[4] This must be an awkward or corrupt way of saying 'at the 100th Olympiad', i.e. 380 BCE.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2001@05:24:24.
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