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Headword: *mh/lw| blhqh=nai
Adler number: mu,938
Translated headword: to be struck with a apple
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those being drawn into lovers' passions.[1]
"[You will learn] not to dart into" -- that is, to enter -- "a dancing-girl's place, in case, by gaping after these things, you are struck with an apple by a little whore and break off from a good reputation." That is, fall out from [it].[2]
Greek Original:
*mh/lw| blhqh=nai: e)pi\ tw=n ei)s e)/rwta/ tina e)pagome/nwn. mh\ d' ei)s o)rxhstri/dos ei)sa/|ttein [toute/stin ei)selqei=n], i(/na mh\ pro\s tau=ta kexhnw/s, mh/lw| blhqei\s u(po\ pornidi/ou th=s eu)klei/as a)poqrausqh=|s. toute/stin e)kpe/sh|s.
Notes:
See also mu 942; and cf. alpha 3324, alpha 4716, epsiloniota 232, theta 470.
[1] cf. Diogenianus 6.63.
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 996-7 (web address 1), with scholion. For 'little whore' cf. pi 2081.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; proverbs; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 July 2009@06:09:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (link, status) on 11 July 2009@19:10:37.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 12 July 2009@05:15:17.
David Whitehead on 21 May 2013@07:41:07.
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