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Headword: *)ane/mou paidi/on
Adler number: alpha,2260
Translated headword: wind's child
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the changeable and capricious.
Greek Original:
*)ane/mou paidi/on: e)pi\ tw=n eu)metabo/lwn kai\ kou/fwn.
Note:
In Diogenianus (1.47) and other paroemiographers; also casually mentioned -- apparently as proverbial -- in Libanius, Letters 1196.2.
Keywords: daily life; ethics; imagery; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 June 2000@11:34:11.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added reference and keyword.) on 15 January 2001@10:25:18.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 15 January 2001@10:49:51.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 5 August 2002@03:17:41.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 4 March 2012@05:29:07.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 13 July 2015@10:50:33.

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