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Headword: *dorka/s
Adler number: delta,1386
Translated headword: gazelle, antelope
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
And [there is] a saying: 'I, a gazelle, will not pick a fight with a lion'. In reference to those of unequal strength.[1]
Greek Original:
*dorka/s. kai\ paroimi/a: *mh\ pro\s le/onta dorka\s a(/ywmai ma/xhs. e)pi\ tw=n th\n i)sxu\n a)ni/swn.
Notes:
The unglossed headword (LSJ entry at web address 1) is presumably extracted from the saying quoted.
[1] Comica adespota fr. 270 Kock, but not in Kassel-Austin; instead, nowadays registered as Iambica adespota fr. 19 Diehl. In Diogenianus 6.59 and other paroemiographers. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.825; and cf. mu 977, pi 2751.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; imagery; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 October 2001@06:38:37.
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Catharine Roth (added link) on 30 October 2001@00:56:25.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 17 September 2002@06:38:20.
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