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The lion and the fox (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


 		Keywords
sayings
Period
2nd century CE
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
A proverb cited in a Neo-Assyrian letter is similar to the one quoted by the 5th century Spartan general Lysander.

SAA 13 45.3-6 (= ABL 555):
A young man who seized the tail of a lion sank in the river, but the one who seized the tail of a fox was saved.

Plutarch, Lysander 7.4:
For where the lion-skin does not reach, there the fox-skin must be attached.

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SAA 13 45.3-6
ABL 555
Plutarch, Lysander 7.4

Bibliography

Alster 1987, 187-193Alster, Bendt. “A Note on the Uriah Letter in the Sumerian Sargon Legend.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 77 (1987) 169-173.
Dalley and Reyes 1998, 103Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.

Amar Annus


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