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Headword:
*mu/llos
pa/nta
a)kou/ei
Adler number: mu,1414
Translated headword: Mullos hears everything
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those feigning dumbness and hearing everything.
Greek Original:*mu/llos pa/nta a)kou/ei: e)pi\ tw=n kwfo/thta prospoioume/nwn kai\ pa/nta a)kouo/ntwn.
Notes:
Cratinus fr. 89 Kock, now 96 K.-A.
The paroemiographers (e.g.
Zenobius 5.14) construe Mul(l)os as a proper name and identify him as a comic poet (who feigned deafness); but lower-case
mu/llos is a fish, the mullet.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; medicine; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 October 2003@05:15:40.
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