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Headword: *ku/wn e)pi\ fa/tnhn
Adler number: kappa,2729
Translated headword: a dog at a manger
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proverb in reference to those neither using [something] nor allowing others [to do so].
Greek Original:
*ku/wn e)pi\ fa/tnhn: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n mh/te xrwme/nwn mh/te a)/llous e)w/ntwn.
Notes:
Photius, Lexicon kappa1282 Theodoridis, and similarly elsewhere.
Also at eta 187, where the "dog" is grammatically a bitch.
Keywords: daily life; ethics; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 December 2000@05:09:29.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 27 October 2003@00:04:41.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 27 October 2003@03:13:44.
David Whitehead on 22 March 2013@05:47:24.
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