Zenobius 3.68
To make an elephant out of a fly
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English
Proverb
To make an elephant out of a fly
Explanation
of those who magnify by speech the smallest things and blow them up. Lucian, in his Encomium of the Fly: "Lest I seem, as the proverb has it, to make an elephant out of a fly."
Greek
Proverb
Ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖν
Explanation
ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ἐπαιρόντων τῷ λόγῳ καὶ μεγαλοποιούντων. Λουκιανὸς Μυίας ἐγκωμίῳ· Μὴ καὶ δόξω, κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖν.
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