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Headword:
*lh/qargos
ku/wn
Adler number: lambda,410
Translated headword: lazy dog, lethargic dog
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one which fawns, but bites surreptitiously. With horses too, the careless and feeble and idle ones are called lazy/lethargic. There is also a particular [sc. medical] condition, with fever, [sc. called lethargy].
Greek Original:*lh/qargos ku/wn: o( prossai/nwn me/n, la/qra de\ da/knwn. kai\ tw=n i(/ppwn oi( me\n a)melei=s kai\ a)blemei=s kai\ nwqroi\ lh/qargoi kalou=ntai. e)/sti de\ kai\ pa/qos ti su\n puretw=|.
Notes:
Very similar entry in
Hesychius and (showing that the headword phrase was, or became, proverbial)
Zenobius 4.90 and other paroemiographers; and cf.
lambda 178.
For the adjective contrast
lambda 409.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 April 2008@07:14:35.
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