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Headword:
*(htth/qhs
tino\s
a)lektruo/nos
Adler number: eta,620
Translated headword: you were defeated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[You were defeated] by the truth,"[1] and "were you defeated by some rooster?". [This is said] in reference to slaves or servants following their masters. This is natural, since in cockfights the roosters which are defeated follow the victors. And
Theocritus [writes]: "such [are] valiant among red-crested birds."[2]
*(htth/qhs th=s a)lhqei/as kai\ *(htth/qhs tino\s a)lektruo/nos: e)pi\ tw=n dou/lwn h)\ qerapo/ntwn e(pome/nwn toi=s despo/tais. fusiko/n e)sti tou=to: e)pei\ e)n tai=s sumbolai=s tw=n a)lektruo/nwn oi( h(tthqe/ntes e(/pontai toi=s nenikhko/si. kai\ *qeo/kritos: o)rni/qwn foinikolo/fwn toioi/de kudoimoi/.
Notes:
The SOL headword is the second of the phrases given; cf. next note.
[1] Perhaps Symeon Metaphrastes (so Adler); in any event, an intrusion into this entry.
[2] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Birds 70 (web address 1), where the question 'were you defeated by some rooster?' -- proverbial in
Apostolius 8.70 -- occurs. The quotation is
Theocritus Idylls 22.72 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 August 2006@01:29:41.
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