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Headword:
*dou=los
w)\n
ko/mhn
e)/xeis
Adler number: delta,1419
Translated headword: despite being a slave you have [long] hair
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A saying] in reference to those who do something unexpected; inasmuch as [it is characteristic] of free men to have long hair.[1]
Also found is doulo/teros ["more slavish, more severely enslaved"] in the comparative.[2]
Greek Original:*dou=los w)\n ko/mhn e)/xeis: e)pi\ tw=n paralo/gws ti pratto/ntwn: paro/son e)leuqe/rwn to\ koma=n. le/getai kai\ *doulo/teros kata\ su/gkrisin.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 911 (web address 1), and scholion; proverbial in
Apostolius 6.34.
[2] As at e.g.
Herodotus 7.7.1 (web address 2), of Egypt after Xerxes' punitive invasion. Note also the proverb 'more enslaved than the Messenians'.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 June 2004@01:25:25.
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