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Headword: *tw=n dunatw=n ti ke/leu': ou) ga\r para\ *kentau/rois
Adler number: tau,864
Translated headword: order something that is possible -- for [you are] not among Centaurs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[no gloss]

Greek Original:

*tw=n dunatw=n ti ke/leu': ou) ga\r para\ *kentau/rois.

Note:

The headword phrase, for which cf. already tau 18, is a proverb which appears in the paroemiographic collections both in this form and in the shorter variant "your brain is amongst the Centaurs" (cf. nu 525). The standard gloss is that it applies to forgetful people, but Diogenianus 6.84 says "forgetful and greedy".

Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; mythology; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 August 2006@06:30:36.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (set status) on 3 August 2006@16:51:48.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 4 August 2006@03:33:01.
David Whitehead (x-ref; tweaks) on 22 March 2010@10:23:30.
David Whitehead (typo) on 23 March 2010@04:27:55.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2011@05:30:12.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2014@03:28:53.
David Whitehead on 28 December 2014@05:15:45.

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