Sunday, March 31, 2024

 

Scared

Aristophanes, fragment 79 Kassel and Austin (Poetae Comici Graeci III 2, p. 69, from Babylonians; tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
He's afraid of his own shadow.

τὴν αὑτοῦ σκιὰν δέδοικεν.
See Fernando García Romero, "Sobre la expresión proverbial 'temer la propia sombra'," in Homenaje al profesor Juan Antonio López Férez (Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2013), pp. 323-328.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:10 AM


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