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Headword: *)apokoph=nai tw=n i)xnw=n
Adler number: alpha,3363
Translated headword: was cut off from the tracks
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
They say that a bitch [was cut off from the tracks] whenever [she] can longer find the tracks.
Greek Original:
*)apokoph=nai tw=n i)xnw=n th\n ku/na le/gousin, o(/tan mhke/ti eu(ri/skh| ta\ i)/xnh.
Notes:
Same or similar entry in other lexica.
Said of a hunting dog (of either sex, presumably: cf. the pairing eta 187 and kappa 2729) losing scent of the quarry.
For the idiom cf. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 2.
Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 February 2001@12:38:59.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (rearranged headword and translation; modified note; added keywords) on 18 March 2001@07:46:59.
David Whitehead (expanded note; cosmetics) on 3 April 2012@04:07:48.
David Whitehead on 28 August 2015@03:42:02.
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