Klaue

From LSJ

Μισῶ γε μέντοι χὤταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ → I hate it when someone is caught in the midst of their evil deeds and tries to gloss over them

Sophocles, Antigone, 495-496

German > Latin

Klaue, I) = Huf: ungula. – II) = Kralle oder krallenartige Zehe der Raubv ögel und Raubtiere: unguis. – falcula unguis mucro (die Kralle inder Klaue). – Bildl., in jmds. Klauen geraten, in manus alcis venire: etwas jmds. Klauen entreißen, alqd ex manibus od. ex faucibus od. velut ex faucibus alcis eripere.