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Headword: *ou)xi\ *glau/kou te/xnh
Adler number: omicron,982
Translated headword: not Glaukos' craft
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to things that are easily accomplished, and [yet] hard to understand.
Greek Original:
*ou)xi\ *glau/kou te/xnh: e)pi\ tw=n eu)= ei)rgasme/nwn, kai\ duskatanoh/twn.
Notes:
For this proverb see already under gamma 282, and again under sigma 376. Glaukos was said to have come from the island of Samos (or Chios) and invented the art of inlaying iron.
The present entry draws on Plutarch, Proverbia 2.25; cf. also Diogenianus, Zenobius, Photius, Hesychius, Macarius Chrysocephalus and Michael Apostolius s.v. Glau/kou te/xnh; see also Plato, Phaedo 108D (web address 1) and the corresponding scholia.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; biography; daily life; geography; proverbs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 18 August 2007@09:15:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 August 2007@06:29:05.
David Whitehead on 2 August 2013@05:44:32.
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