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daily life2
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biography1
meter and music1
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poetry1
rhetoric1

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Κ kappa1

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high2

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Short2

Translator

David Whitehead2

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ε1438Ἐν σκότῳ ὀρχεῖσθαιto dance in the dark… over things that are unwitnessed, and do not have a clearcut result.Matched in translationhighshort
κ243ΚαλλιφάνηςKalliphanes, Calliphanescf. Clearchus fr.90 Wehrli (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.4C [1.6 Kaibel]).Matched in noteshighshort

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Ἐν σκότῳ ὀρχεῖσθαι

to dance in the dark

[A proverbial saying] in reference to those toiling over things that are unwitnessed, and do not have a clearcut result.

Ἐν σκότῳ ὀρχεῖσθαι· ἐπὶ τῶν ἀμάρτυρα μοχθούντων, ὧν τὸ ἔργον ἀφανές.