Κρατεῖν

to prevail [over]

Translated by David Whitehead9 Dec 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning] to be victorious [over]. "[The story goes that?] the hare prevails in the race over its pursuers".¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κρατεῖν· νικᾶν. τὸν δὲ λαγῳὸν κρατεῖν τῷ δρόμῳ τῶν διωκόντων.

Betacode

*kratei=n: nika=n. to\n de\ lagw|o\n kratei=n tw=| dro/mw| tw=n diwko/ntwn.

1Quotation unidentifiable; perhaps from a proverbial anecdote (but, if so, not the one about the hare and the tortoise; cf. kappa 395, and more generally lambda 28, lambda 29). ↩

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