Pyramus
From LSJ
ἄλλαι μὲν βουλαὶ ἀνθρώπων, ἄλλα δὲ Θεὸς κελεύει → man proposes, God disposes | men's wishes are different from what God orders | man's will is often different than God's decisions
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Πύραμος, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Pȳrămus: i, m., = Πύραμος,>
I a river in Cilicia, now the Jaihān, Mel. 1, 13, 1; Plin. 5, 27, 22, § 91; Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 1; Curt. 3, 4, 7; 3, 7, 5.
Pȳrămus: i, m., = Πύραμος,>
I the lover of Thisbe, who, on account of her supposed death, stabbed himself under a mulberry-tree, Ov. M. 4, 55 sq. — Hence,
II Pȳrămĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pyramus, Pyramian: arbor, i. e. the mulberry-tree, Ser. Samm. 29, 553.
