κρημνός
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)
(A), ὁ, heterocl.pl. κρημνά, τά,
A v.l. for κρημνούς in Eus. Mynd.63:—overhanging bank, in Hom. (only Il.) of the bank of a river, edge of a trench, 12.54, 21.175,234,244, cf. Pi.O.3.22; κ. θαλάσσας Id.Fr.201; κ. μαλακοί Arist.HA615b31; later, beetling cliff, crag, ἀπὸ τοῦ κ. ὠθέειν Hdt.4.103; ἀναθεῖναι ἐπὶ κρημνόν τιν' Ar.Pl.69; κατὰ τῶν κ. ἅλλεσθαι down from the cliffs of Epipolae, Th.7.45; κατὰ κ. ῥιφέντες Pl.Lg.944a; οἱ K., the Screes, on the Sea of Azof, Hdt.4.20, 110. 2 in pl., edges of an ulcer, Hp.Loc.Hom.29. 3 labia pudendi, ib.47, Poll.2.174, Ruf.Onom.112.
κρημνός (B),
A v. κριμνός.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κρημνός: ὁ, (κρεμάννυμι) ὡς καὶ νῦν, παρ᾿ Ὁμ. (ἐν Ἰλ.), συχν. ἐπὶ τῆς ἀνωφεροῦς ἢ ἀποτόμου ὄχθης ποταμοῦ, ἢ ἄκρας χαρακώματος, Μ. 54., Φ. 175, 234, 244· οὕτω παρὰ Πινδ. Ο. 3. 39, Ἀποσπ. 215· ἀκολούθως, ἀπόκρημνος καὶ προέχων βράχος, ἀπορρὼξ πέτρα (πρβλ. τὸ τοῦ Οὐεργιλίου scopulis pendentibus), ἀπὸ τοῦ κρημνοῦ ὠθέειν Ἡρόδ. 4. 103· ἀναθεῖναι ἐπὶ κρημνόν τιν᾿ Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 69· κατὰ τῶν κρημνῶν ἅλλεσθαι, ἀπὸ τῶν κρημνῶν κάτω, ἐπὶ τῶν Ἐπιπολῶν, Θουκ. 7. 45· κατὰ κρημνῶν ῥιφέντες Πλάτ. Νόμ. 944Α· τὸ πτηνὸν ὁ μελισσοφάγος (μέροψ) κτίζει τὴν φωλεάν του εἰς κρημνοὺς μαλακούς, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 9. 13, 3. 2) ἐν τῷ πληθ., τὰ χείλη ἢ ἄκρα πληγῆς, Ἱππ. 418. 44. 3) τὰ χείλη τοῦ γυναικείου αἰδοίου, labia pudenti, Ἱππ. 423, 27 κἑξ., «τὰ ἑκατέρωθεν (τῆς κλειτορίδος) σαρκώδη μυρτοχειλίδες ἢ κρημνοὶ ἢ πτερυγώματα» Πολυδ. Βʹ, 174.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
pente très rude, lieu escarpé, précipice, falaise ; οἱ Κρημνοί HDT les Escarpements, lieu près de la mer d’Azov.
Étymologie: R. Κρεμ, v. κρεμάννυμι.
English (Autenrieth)
(κρέμαμαι): steep, over hanging bank, often of the gullied banks of the Scamander, Il. 21.26, 175.
