κισσάω
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)
Att. κιττ-, (
A κίσσα 11) crave for strange food, of pregnant women, Arist.HA584a19, Arr.Epict.4.8.35, Gal.6.422; κ. τῆς γηθυλλίδος Polem.Hist.36: metaph., κ. τῆς εἰρήνης Ar.Pax 497 (lyr.): c. inf., long to do a thing, Id.V.349 (cf. Sch.); ἐκίττα ἡ πόλις ἐπὶ τῷ μειρακίῳ Longus 4.33. II Act., conceive, LXX Ps.50(51).7.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1442] att. κιττάω, das heftige Gelüst schwangerer Frauen nach besonderen, oft widernatürlichen Speisen haben, τινός; Ath. IX, 372 a; Arist. H. A. 7, 4 u. A.; übh. wonach lüstern sein, heftig verlangen, τῆς εἰρήνης Ar. Pax 4971 c. infin., Vesp. 349.
