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Headword:
*po/ll'
oi)=d'
a)lw/phc
Adler number: pi,1931
Translated headword: a fox knows many things but a hedgehog one big one
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [No gloss]
Greek Original:*po/ll' oi)=d' a)lw/phc, a)ll' e)xi=nos e(\n me/ga.
Notes:
Archilochus fr. 201 West;
Zenobius 5.68; and in Erasmus' Latin version,
multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.
This dictum prompted the famous 1953 essay by Isaiah Berlin,
The Fox and the Hedgehog (on Tolstoy et al.)
For other proverbs involving foxes see
alpha 1388,
alpha 1391,
alpha 1392; for another involving a hedgehog,
epsilon 4009.
Keywords: daily life; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 April 2003@08:47:10.
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