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Headword:
*lai/qargos
Adler number: lambda,178
Translated headword: secretly-biting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] biting for hire.[1]
"You wag your tail while biting, and you are a secretly-biting bitch."[2] A proverb applying to people who, to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but are plotting in secret.[3]
Greek Original:*lai/qargos: latrodh/kths. sai/neis da/knousa kai\ ku/wn lai/qargos ei)=. paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n u(pokrinome/nwn dh=qen eu)noei=n, e)pibouleuo/ntwn de\ la/qra.
Notes:
[1] The gloss
latrodh/kths occurs only here, and surely ought to be
laqrodh/kths 'secretly-biting', as in Phrynicus the Atticist
Praeparatio sophistica 87 and
Suetonius *peri\ blasfhmi/wn 4.52.
[2]
Sophocles fr.885, quoted twice -- as proverbial -- in the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights (1031 and 1068).
[3] cf.
lambda 410,
sigma 171.
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 21 August 2005@19:34:37.
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