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Headword: *kwfo/teros ki/xlhs
Adler number: kappa,2309
Translated headword: dumber than a thrush
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In Eubulus in Dionysius [this] is said [sc. with the meaning] more voiceless than a thrush.
Greek Original:
*kwfo/teros ki/xlhs: par' *eu)bou/lw| e)n *dionusi/w| le/getai a)fwno/teros ki/xlhs.
Notes:
The headword phrase (in which 'dumb' bears the meaning it bears in UK, not US, English) is Eubulus fr. 29 Kock, now 28 K.-A. (Suda ms.F wrongly gives the title as Dionysus). For the present gloss on it see also Photius kappa1337 Theodoridis, and cf. Zenobius 4.66 and other paroemiographers.
Its adjective kwfo/teros is the comparative of kwfo/s: cf. kappa 2310, kappa 2307, kappa 2308.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 February 2009@23:55:20.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 27 February 2009@03:08:38.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 March 2013@09:22:04.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 23 December 2014@07:39:24.
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