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Headword:
Hupo
panti
lithôi
skorpios
Adler number: upsilon,554
Translated headword: under every stone a scorpion.
Vetting Status: high
Translation: “Lies under” is omitted. It is said about malicious [people], and it is [also] said about ill-tempered ones.[1]
It advises not to speak hastily, in order not to get bitten.[2]
Greek Original:Hupo panti lithôi skorpios: elleipei hupestin. legetai epi tôn kakoêthôn, kai epi eristikôn legetai. parainei mê propetôs lalein, tou mê dêchthênai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius (upsilon231 Theodoridis), taken to come from
Pausanias the Atticist (upsilon12). A variant of this proverb can be found under
alpha 1073 (see the note there); also
Hesychius s.v.
u(po\ panti\ li/qw|,
Zenobius, Michael
Apostolius and
Macarius Chrysocephalus s.v.
u(po\ panti\ li/qw| sko/rpios, and
Diogenianus s.v.
u(po\ panti\ li/qw| sko/rpios eu)/dei. See generally Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.2218, with Latin and later parallels.
[2] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV.
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 22 June 2008@14:18:00.
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