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Headword:
*pranh/s
Adler number: pi,2209
Translated headword: falling forwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Descriptive of] a road leading downwards.[1]
"In a certain downward [road], narrow and long and full of slipperiness, many were slipping away."[2]
Greek Original:*pranh/s: o(do\s katwferh/s. e)n de/ tini pranei=, stenw=| kai\ e)pimh/kei kai\ o)li/sqou ge/monti, polloi\ parefe/ronto.
Notes:
cf.
pi 2208.
[1] Likewise or similarly in
Photius and other lexica.
[2]
Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766) proposed conjoining this fragment with another unattributable quotation found in two versions at
epsilon 926 and
pi 445.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 April 2013@01:26:52.
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