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Headword: *probati/ou bi/on zh=n
Adler number: pi,2332
Translated headword: to live a sheep's life
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to stupid and brainless people. For sheep do no work; they [merely] exist.
Or else because of their feebleness.[1]
Greek Original:
*probati/ou bi/on zh=n: e)pi\ tw=n mwrw=n kai\ a)noh/twn. ta\ ga\r pro/bata ou)de\n e)rga/zetai, kai\ zh=|. h)\ dia\ to\ a)drane/s.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 922 ('you are describing a sheep's life'), with comment from the scholia there. See text at web address 1.
[1] Cf. alpha 522.
cf. Apostolius 14.81.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 April 2003@06:26:04.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 15 August 2004@01:08:04.
David Whitehead on 16 August 2004@04:07:27.
David Whitehead on 14 October 2013@06:54:56.
David Whitehead on 24 May 2016@06:04:31.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 4 November 2021@23:12:51.
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