Addendum: ‘Lest Men, Like Fishes’

Further instances of the topos of big fishes devouring the little, cited in previous issues of Traditio, include the following, in addition to those given in M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor, Mich. 1950), which appeared too l...

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Main Author: Elton, William (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1962
In: Traditio
Year: 1962, Volume: 18, Pages: 421-422
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