______ ψυχὴ πράγματος.
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Καιρὸς ψυχὴ πράγματος.Ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν ______.
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Ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν λαγών.Μὴ νεκρῶν θήκας ______.
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Μὴ νεκρῶν θήκας κίνει.Ὄνος ______ μιμούμενος.
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Ὄνος ἵππον μιμούμενος.______ Πεγάσῳ κρίνεις.
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Χελώην Πεγάσῳ κρίνεις.Καιρὸς ψυχὴ πράγματος.
The right moment is the soul of the matter.
In English, we might say "the heart" of the matter, rather than "the soul." For the wide range of meanings of Greek ψυχή, see the LSJ dictionary entry: soul, spirit, life, self, consciousness. The word gives us all the psych- words in English, like psychology, and Psyche is the lover of Eros / Cupid; see Wikipedia: Cupid and Psyche.
Ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν λαγών.
The Carpathian (brought) the rabbit.
This is mentioned as a proverb in Aristotle's Rhetoric, and it was already known to Archilochus. The story goes that a Carpathian unwittingly imported a pair of rabbits onto the island (Κάρπαθος), and the rabbits multiplied, devastating the crops. Compare the rabbits in Australia.
Μὴ νεκρῶν θήκας κίνει.
Do not disturb the graves of the dead.
This is a saying found in Theophrastus, and it can be applied metaphorically to anything that is "dead and buried" and is best left undisturbed. Don't go digging it up again! Note the accentuation on κίνει, which alerts you that it is the imperative, along with μὴ as a clue that you are not dealing with an indicative verb (κινεῖ would be the 3rd-person indicative).
Ὄνος ἵππον μιμούμενος.
A donkey imitating a horse.
This saying refers to someone unworthy who claims honors that do not belong to them. Aesop has his own take on this comparison: he tells a fable about a donkey who envied a noble horse... until he saw the horse badly wounded in war. The donkey then decided that being a donkey is maybe not so bad! Here's that fable: The Donkey who Envied the Horse.
Χελώην Πεγάσῳ κρίνεις.
You're comparing a tortoise to Pegasus.
Of course, the tortoise is slow and crawls on the ground, while Pegasus, the winged horse, is fast and flies through the air. Erasmus gives the form Χελώνην Πηγάσῳ συγκρίνεις (= συν-κρίνεις). For more about the famous flying horse, see Wikipedia: Pegasus. For another proverb about Pegasus, see this earlier post: Πηγάσου ταχύτερος.
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Καιρὸς ψυχὴ πράγματος.Ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν ______.
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Ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν λαγών.Μὴ νεκρῶν θήκας ______.
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Μὴ νεκρῶν θήκας κίνει.Ὄνος ______ μιμούμενος.
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Ὄνος ἵππον μιμούμενος.______ Πεγάσῳ κρίνεις.
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Χελώην Πεγάσῳ κρίνεις.
And to finish up, here's a random proverb and a random LOLCat too:
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