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Headword:
*le/onta
cura=|s
Adler number: lambda,250
Translated headword: you are shaving a lion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb said in reference to those attempting the impossible.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: to see lions shows battles of enemies.[2]
See on a lion in the [entry] 'with hair standing on end'.[3]
Greek Original:*le/onta cura=|s: paroimi/a legome/nh e)pi\ tw=n ta\ a)du/nata e)pixeirou/ntwn. lu/sis o)nei/rou: le/ontas i)dei=n dusmenw=n dhloi= ma/xas. zh/tei peri\ le/ontos e)n tw=| frico/trixa.
Notes:
[1] Also in
Photius (and the paroemiographers), and cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Republic 341C (where the phrase 'attempting to shave a lion' occurs). See web address 1.
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
[3]
phi 718.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dreams; meter and music; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 April 2008@10:20:58.
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