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Headword:
Arouraia
mantis
Adler number: alpha,3990
Translated headword: field mantis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are sluggish and ineffectual. There is a clumsy locust, green, called a mantis, whose movements some heed and [thereby] prophesy.[1]
The aroura[2] contains 50 feet.[3]
Greek Original:Arouraia mantis: epi tôn nôthrôn kai apraktôn. esti de akris duskinêtos, chlôra, kaloumenê mantis, hês tines prosechontes tais kinêsesi manteuontai. hoti hê aroura echei podas n#.
Notes:
Appendix Proverbiorum 1.40 (and elsewhere).
[1] The praying mantis (Mantis religiosa); again at
mu 169.
[2] An Egyptian land-measure.
[3] cf.
sigma 981.
Keywords: agriculture; daily life; ethics; geography; mathematics; proverbs; religion; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2001@18:13:01.
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