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Headword:
Oinos
aneu
paidôn
Adler number: omicroniota,134
Translated headword: wine without children
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Two proverbs: one [is] "wine and truth", the other "wine and children [are] true". It is used in reference to those who are being ingenuous and speaking the truth.[1]
Interpretation of Dreams of Nikephoros the patriarch:[2] "Wine emptied from vessels brings an end to pains. Foul wine makes many pains plain. If you partake of wine expect terrible quarrels."
Greek Original:Oinos aneu paidôn: duo paroimiai, hê men oinos kai alêtheia, hê d' oinos kai paides alêtheis. lambanetai epi tôn haploïzomenôn kai tên alêtheian legontôn. lusis oneirôn Nikêphorou patriarchou: oinos kenôtheis angeiôn pauei lupas. oinos rhupôdês ektranoi pollas lupas. oinou metaschôn prosdoka deinas machas.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron128 Theodoridis, and cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Symposium 217E, where Alkibiades says:
to\ lego/menon, oi)=nos a)/neu te pai/dwn kai\ meta\ pai/dwn h)=n a)lhqh/s; "there is, as the proverb says, truth in wine - whether one adds 'and in children' is of no significance" (tr. W.Hamilton). The first of these is best known nowadays in its Latin form,
in vino veritas (Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.1424); and for the latter cf. our "out of the mouths of babes and sucklings".
[2] See the note to
beta 351.
Translated by: William Hutton on 15 November 2000@16:03:59.
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