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Headword:
*pezh=|
Adler number: pi,913
Translated headword: on foot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] walking.[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "I am walking on foot; for I know not [how] to swim".[2] Meaning I cannot [do so].[3]
Greek Original:*pezh=|: ba/dhn. kai\ paroimi/a: pezh=| badi/zw: nei=n ga\r ou)k e)pi/stamai. a)nti\ tou= ou) du/namai.
Notes:
The headword (which also features in the proverb quoted) is dative feminine singular -- presupposing the noun
o(do/s -- of the adjective
pezo/s. See generally LSJ s.v., III.
[1] cf. ps.-
Zonaras s.v.
e)mbado/n and
Photius s.v.
pezh=.
[2] For this proverb see lines 49-50 of
Eupolis fr. 268 Kassel-Austin (= 98 in Austin,
CGFPR), from the
Taxiarchs; also the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wasps 959 and
Birds 1432 (cf.
epsilon 2637,
omicron 878), and Arsenius,
Apophthegmata 14.16.
[3] For this equivalence see
omicron 878.
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 7 June 2007@16:49:16.
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