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Λύκον εἶδες

you saw a wolf

Translated by David Whitehead20 Aug 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 40 words
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to sudden astonishing occurrences.1 "You might not be able to look back at him; instead, there if anywhere, the saying 'you would not speak, you saw a wolf'2 seems to have been precisely said."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λύκον εἶδες· ἐπὶ τῶν αἰφνίδιον ἀχανῶν γινομένων. σὺ δ' οὐκ ἂν δύναιο πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀντιβλέπειν, ἀλλὰ τὸ λεγόμενον οὐ φθέγξῃ, λύκον εἶδες, εἴπερ ἄλλοθί που, κἀνταῦθα δόξει κυρίως εἰρῆσθαι.

Betacode
*lu/kon ei)=des: e)pi\ tw=n ai)fni/dion a)xanw=n ginome/nwn. su\ d' ou)k a)\n du/naio pro\s au)to\n a)ntible/pein, a)lla\ to\ lego/menon ou) fqe/gch|, lu/kon ei)=des, ei)/per a)/lloqi/ pou, ka)ntau=qa do/cei kuri/ws ei)rh=sqai.

Notes (3)

  1. 1cf. Apostolius 10.89 and other paroemiographers, and the scholia to Theocritus (see next note). ↩
  2. 2Theocritus, Idylls 14.22 -- where in fact these words are interrogative: 'Would you not speak? Did you see a wolf?'. See web address 1. ↩
  3. 3Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests the emperor Julian.) ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 12 Sep 2013
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. supplemented note — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. augmented n.1 — David Whitehead
  5. added link, set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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