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Headword:
*)/onou
skia/
Adler number: omicron,401
Translated headword: a donkey's shadow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to nothingness. For they say that a youth hired a donkey [to take him] from
Athens to
Delphi. At noon, after stopping his donkey, he slipped into its shadow.
*)/onou skia/: e)pi\ th=s ou)qenei/as. fasi\ ga/r, o(/ti neani/skos *)aqh/nhqen ei)s *delfou\s o)/non e)misqw/sato: meshmbri/as de\ labou/shs, sth/sas to\n o)/non u(pe/du th\n skia/n.
Note:
See more fully under
omicron 400 (and
upsilon 327), where the continuation of the tale is given: the owner of the ass objected that he had hired out only the beast, not its shadow, and litigation ensued.
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 28 November 2001@12:08:25.
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