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Headword:
*kat'
ai)=gas
a)gri/as
Adler number: kappa,888
Translated headword: towards wild goats
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb uttered in reference to a curse. "To turn the evils towards wild goats."
Greek Original:*kat' ai)=gas a)gri/as: paroimi/a legome/nh e)pi\ kata/ras. kat' ai)=gas a)gri/as tre/pein ta\ kaka/.
Notes:
cf.
Hesychius kappa1123, who speaks more exactly of doing this with disease, especially 'the sacred' (i.e. epilepsy). Latte ad loc. connects this with
Callimachus,
Aetia fr. 75.
Proverbial in
Apostolius 9.61 and other paroemiographers.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2007@07:35:38.
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