______ ὑπὸ ῥόπαλον δραμεῖται.
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Ὗς ὑπὸ ῥόπαλον δραμεῖται.Τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι ______.
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Τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι φίλος.Τὸ ______ οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι.
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Τὸ μέλλον οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι.______ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφεις.
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Ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφεις.Σίδηρον ______ διδάσκεις.
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Σίδηρον πλεῖν διδάσκεις.Ὗς ὑπὸ ῥόπαλον δραμεῖται.
The pig will run to the cudgel.
The saying refers to someone who foolishly rushes headlong into their own doom instead of running away from it.
Τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι φίλος.
One grasshopper is dear to another.
The words come from one of the idylls of Theocritus: τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι φίλος, μύρμακι δὲ μύρμαξ, / ἴρηκες δ᾿ ἴρηξιν, with the τέττιξ, grasshopper or cicada, the μύρμαξ, ant, and the hawks, ἴρηκες.
Τὸ μέλλον οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι.
No one can escape what is coming.
The verb ἐκφύγοι is in the optative mood, expressing potential: people might wish to escape what is coming, but nobody can escape, οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι. The participial phrase τὸ μέλλον means "that which is coming," i.e. the future, fate, destiny, etc.
Ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφεις.
You're nursing a snake in your bosom.
This saying appears in Erasmus's Adagia. Compare the Aesop's fable about the man who found a frozen snake in the snow and warmed it, only to be bitten by the snake when it thawed: The Man and the Snake. You can see a more poetic restatement of this proverb, emphasizing that the snake is cold, in this post: Ψυχρὸν ἐν κόλπῳ ποικίλον εἶχες ὄφιν.
Σίδηρον πλεῖν διδάσκεις.
You're teaching iron to float.
This is another kind of fool's errand, the opposite of the previous proverb: iron is never going to float. At least, that's what the Greeks thought about iron. Later on, of course, iron did learn to float! You can read about the history of iron-hulled sailing ships at Wikipedia.
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Ὗς ὑπὸ ῥόπαλον δραμεῖται.Τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι ______.
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Τέττιξ μὲν τέττιγι φίλος.Τὸ ______ οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι.
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Τὸ μέλλον οὐδεὶς ἐκφύγοι.______ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφεις.
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Ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφεις.Σίδηρον ______ διδάσκεις.
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Σίδηρον πλεῖν διδάσκεις.
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