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Headword:
Pros
Krêta
krêtizôn
Adler number: pi,2745
Translated headword: speaking Cretan to a Cretan
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb in reference to labouring in vain.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "he ignored the fact that, as the saying goes, he was speaking Cretan to a Cretan".[2]
Greek Original:Pros Krêta krêtizôn: paroimia epi tôn matên ponountôn. Polubios: ho de êgnoei to dê legomenon pros Krêta krêtizôn.
Notes:
Keywords: biography; daily life; geography; historiography; history; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 October 2001@07:47:39.
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