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Headword:
Age
dêta
Adler number: alpha,180
Translated headword: hey there
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] come now, you there, over here.[1]
And [there is] an epigram addressed to
Diogenes the Cynic: "' Hey,
Diogenes, tell [us], what fate took you to Hades?' 'A dog's bite took me'".[2]
But the epigram [sc. illustrates the idiom] in short form.
Age dêta: phere, komize, deuro. kai epigramma eis Diogenên ton Kuna: Diogenes, age, lege, tis elabe se moros es Aïdos; elabe me kunos odax. to de epigramma dia bracheôn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha135 Theodoridis.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 6.79 =
Greek Anthology 7.116; cf. again
delta 1141,
omicron 28. The original reads "a dog's savage bite" (
kuno\s a)/grion o)da/c).
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 7 June 1999@11:32:12.
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