Greek Proverb of the Day

Here is today's proverb from the blog with a LOLcat and vocabulary too! This is a repeat of a proverb you've seen before, but the vocabulary list is new. The vocabulary links go to Logeion.

Ὅμοιον ὁμοίῳ φίλον.

• ὅμοιον and ὁμοίῳ, from ὅμοιος.
• φίλον, from φίλος.

Ὅμοιον ὁμοίῳ φίλον.

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In Greek, it is literally "a (similar) thing is friendly to a similar thing." The saying appears in Plato's Lysis (τὸ ὅμοιον τῷ ὁμοίῳ φίλον εἶναι) in a debate about whether friendship is more likely among people who are similar or whether people who are similar are prone to envy and resentment, with friendship more naturally occurring between people who are dissimilar. From the Greek root ὁμο- we get the homo- words in English like homogeneous and homonym.

And here's a quiz covering the past five cats (answers at the blog only, not in the email):

Ἡφαίστειος ______.

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Ἡφαίστειος δεσμός.

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Ὅμοιον ὁμοίῳ ______.

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Ὅμοιον ὁμοίῳ φίλον.

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Ἅμαξα τὸν _______ ἕλκει.

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Ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν ἕλκει.

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Γλυκὺς ἀπείρῳ ______.

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Γλυκὺς ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος.

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Ἄρτι _______ πίττης γεύεται.

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Ἄρτι μῦς πίττης γεύεται.

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And to finish up, here's a random LOLCat too:

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