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Headword: Auton kekroukas ton batêra tês thuras
Adler number: alpha,4511
Translated headword: you have hit the very threshold of the door
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those speaking truthfully; in effect, you have come to the truth itself.
Greek Original:
Auton kekroukas ton batêra tês thuras: epi tôn alêtheuontôn: hoion ep' autên elêluthas tên alêtheian.
Notes:
Roughly equivalent to "You have hit the nail on the head". Again at beta 181.
Taken to be, in origin, from comedy (Comica adespota fr. 570c Kock, but now Amipsias fr. 25 Kassel-Austin), and glossed likewise or similarly in several of the paroemiographers. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.736.
Keywords: architecture; comedy; daily life; ethics; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 August 2001@16:43:07.
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David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 2 August 2001@03:26:09.
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