μεταζεύγνυμι
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
unyoke and put to another carriage, ἵππους X.Cyr. 6.3.21.
German (Pape)
[Seite 146] (s. ζεύγνυμι), umspannen, anders spannen, ἴππους, Xen. Cyr. 6, 3, 21.
French (Bailly abrégé)
atteler autrement.
Étymologie: μετά, ζεύγνυμι.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
μεταζεύγνῡμι: перепрягать (ἵππους Xen.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μεταζεύγνῡμι: λύω ἀπὸ τοῦ ζυγοῦ καὶ ζευγνύω εἰς ἄλλην ἅμαξαν, Ξεν. Κύρ. 6. 3, 21.
Greek Monolingual
μεταζεύγνυμι (ΑM)
λύνω άλογο από τον ζυγό και το ζεύω σε άλλη άμαξα («ὁμοῦ δὲ τοῦ ἀγῶνος ὄντος οὐδενὶ ἅρματι ἔτι καιρὸς τοὺς ἵππους μεταζευγνύναι», Ξεν.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μετ(α)- + ζεύγνυμι «ζεύω»].
Greek Monotonic
μεταζεύγνῡμι: δένω το ζευγάρι (ζώων που οργώνουν) σε άλλη άμαξα, σε Ξεν.
