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Headword:
*peri\
o)/nou
skia=s
Adler number: pi,1216
Translated headword: about a donkey's shadow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverbial phrase. About those spending time on worthless things.[1]
About the shadow at
Delphi:[2]
Demosthenes in [the]
Philippics [sc. uses the phrase].[3]
Didymus maintains that the proverb about a donkey's shadow was fabricated by the orator, when speaking about the shadow in
Delphi, and that it is said in application to those fighting about worthless things.[4]
*peri\ o)/nou skia=s: paroimiako/n. peri\ tw=n e)ndiatribo/ntwn toi=s mhdeno\s a)ci/ois. *peri\ th=s e)n *delfoi=s skia=s: *dhmosqe/nhs *filippikoi=s. *di/dumo/s fhsi th\n peri\ o)/nou skia=s paroimi/an parapepoih=sqai u(po\ tou= r(h/toros, le/gontos peri\ th=s e)n *delfoi=s skia=s: le/gesqai de\ au)th\n e)pi\ toi=s peri\ tw=n mhdeno\s a)ci/wn maxome/nois.
Notes:
See also
omicron 400,
omicron 401,
upsilon 327.
[1] Same material in
Photius.
[2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v.
[3]
Demosthenes 5.25 (web address 1).
[4]
Didymus p.311 Schmidt. As reproduced here, from Harpok., his critique is hard to fathom, since the proverb about the donkey was far older than anything said by
Demosthenes in 346 BCE about the Amphictionic Council.
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Keywords: daily life; definition; history; proverbs; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 December 2000@07:31:31.
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