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Headword: *th=s mhtro\s w(s ai)\c kalei=tai
Adler number: tau,538
Translated headword: from his mother, like a goat, is he named
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. The proverb arises] because kids in herds of goats are recognised from their mothers; for [it is] impossible [to recognise them] from their fathers.
Greek Original:
*th=s mhtro\s w(s ai)\c kalei=tai: oi( ga\r e)/rifoi e)n toi=s ai)poli/ois a)po\ tw=n mhte/rwn gnwri/zontai: a)po\ pate/rwn ga\r a)du/naton.
Note:
Also in Photius; and cf. Apostolius 16.54. (Earliest in the grammarian Pausanias, C2 CE.)
Keywords: daily life; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 June 2006@09:07:07.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 9 June 2006@11:11:18.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 11 June 2006@03:53:31.
David Whitehead on 14 August 2011@06:20:19.
David Whitehead on 13 January 2014@04:30:53.
David Whitehead on 30 December 2021@15:13:33.

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