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Headword:
*pa/nta
mh\
bou/lou
kratei=n
Adler number: pi,224
Translated headword: do not want to control everything
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. a proverbial saying] in reference to those wanting to be fortunate in everything.
Greek Original:*pa/nta mh\ bou/lou kratei=n: e)pi\ tw=n ei)s pa/nta eu)daimonei=n boulome/nwn.
Notes:
Creon [
Author,
Myth] in
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 1522.
Although the form of the gloss suggests that the phrase became proverbial (and Adler classifies it as such), it is not in the paroemiographers.
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 15 December 2002@09:00:35.
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