Ὄνου θανάτους

a donkey's deaths

Translated by David Whitehead11 Jan 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

11 words

Translation

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those telling absurd stories.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὄνου θανάτους· ἐπὶ τῶν ἀλλόκοτα διηγουμένων.

Betacode
*)/onou qana/tous: e)pi\ tw=n a)llo/kota dihgoume/nwn. 

Notes

  1. Same (but with 'death': nominative singular rather than the Suda's accusative plural) entry in Photius omicron361 Theodoridis; see also Apostolius 12.86.

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Revision history3 revisions · last 4 Jul 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. augmented note — David Whitehead
  3. set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“a donkey's deaths.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 11 January 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omicron/396>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omicron/396>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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