βίλλος
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
French (Bailly abrégé)
c. βαλλίον.
Spanish (DGE)
τὸ ἀνδρεῖον αἰδοῖον Hdn.Gr.1.158.
Frisk Etymological English
Meaning: τὸ ἀνδρεῖον μόριον τὸ κοινῶς βιλλίν (Hdn. I, 158).
Other forms: Also βιλλᾶς ib.
Derivatives: PN Βίλλος, -αρος (L. Robert, Noms indigènes 16-22).
Etymology: Fur. 325 compares ἀβίλλιον ἀνδρεῖον H. The proth. vowel may point to Pre-Gr. origin, which is a priori to be expected. βιλλίν is Ephesian; if the form is a nom., cf. the Pre-Gr. words in -ν (Beekes, Pre-Greek).
