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Headword:
*mu=s
pi/sshs
geu/etai
Adler number: mu,1477
Translated headword: a mouse is tasting pitch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those just ending [something] with an effort.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] "as many as a mouse in pitch", from Mys the Tarentine, who ended poorly at the Olympics.[2]
Greek Original:*mu=s pi/sshs geu/etai: e)pi\ tw=n newsti\ a)pallasso/ntwn meta\ ko/pou. kai\ *(/osa mu=s e)n pi/ssh|, a)po\ *muo\s tou= *taranti/nou, kakw=s *)olumpi/asin a)palla/cantos.
Notes:
Similar entry in
Photius (mu621 Theodoridis).
[1] For other explanations see however
mu 1468 and in the later paroemiographers.
[2] See
omicron 680.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 July 2009@05:57:47.
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