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When ants are struck (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Proverb collections 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.03 Wisdom literature 04.03.06 Proverb collections	Keywords ants similes
Period 7th century BCE Greek Archaic Age Middle Assyrian Empire	Channel Greek poets

Text
el-Amarna Letters 252.16:
When ants are struck, they do not (just) accept it, but bite the hand of the man that strikes them.

Archilochus 23.15-16:
I know how to hate my enemy and be the ant that [ … ]s him

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el-Amarna Letters 252.16
Archilochus 23.15-16

Bibliography

West 1997, 500

West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus

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