thigh of gold philos.

[Ольга Иванова]

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести фразу "thigh of gold"

Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:
"Pythagoras was famous as a wonder-worker who had a thigh of gold and who could be two places at the same time"

Заранее спасибо.
С уважением,
Ольга

[R.V.]

думаю здесь нет никакого скрытого смысла и понимать нужно буквально.

[Enote]

Переводится буквально, это из некой античной легенды: Pythagoras is ridiculed by Xenophanes for recognising a friend’s voice in the cry of a puppy (D.L.8.36), praised “as a man of great knowledge” by Empedocles (Porph.LP.30) and accused of being a charlatan, as well as a magician and miracle worker, by Heraclitus (D.L.8.6). He features in Apollonius of Tyana’s Mirabilia (6), where he foretells the future, is bitten by a poisonous snake, biting it back and killing it, appears in Croton and Metapontum at the same time and on another occasion reveals his thigh which was made out of gold.[30] Herodotus, however, describes him as “one of the more influential teachers of the Greeks”(4.95).
Вам сюда: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/simon.mahony/ma-pyth.html

[Ольга Иванова]

R.V. и Enote спасибо Вам большое а то бы я ещё три года тайный смысл искала-)))