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Headword: Ponêra kata trugona psalleis
Adler number: pi,2037
Translated headword: you are twanging dolefully like a dove
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those living in a base and grievous state.[1] For it is when a dove is hungry that she twangs most.
Greek Original:
Ponêra kata trugona psalleis: epi tôn mochthêrôs kai epiponôs zôntôn. kai gar hê trugôn, epeidan peinai, tote malista psallei.
Notes:
For the verb here, more usually applied to plucking a stringed instrument, cf. psi 12, psi 13, psi 14.
[1] So too Diogenianus 7.71, and other paroemiographers. Again at tau 1094.
Keywords: daily life; food; imagery; meter and music; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Nathan Greenberg ✝ on 20 May 2002@09:44:53.
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David Whitehead (added note and keywords) on 21 May 2002@03:40:48.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 October 2011@07:10:42.
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