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Headword:
Prôktos
loutrou
periginêi
Adler number: pi,2951
Translated headword: the arse survives a wash
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb, [used] whenever someone is not even able to wash himself off, but the excrement is carried around with him. So it used to be said of those who were useless and acted casually.[1]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "I am able to make Demos broad and narrow [sc. by turns] by my dexterity" - "Even my arse is clever at this".[2]
Prôktos loutrou periginêi: paroimia, hotan tis mê dunêtai kan aponipsasthai, alla hê koilia epipherêtai. epi tôn anôphelôn oun kai eikê prattomenôn elegeto. kai Aristophanês: dunamai poiein ton dêmon eurun kai stenon hupo dexiotêtos tês emês. chô prôktos houmos toutige sophizetai.
Notes:
For 'arse' see already
pi 2950; and cf.
pi 2952
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wasps 604, where an approximation of the headword phrase appears (web address 1). Included by the paroemiographers:
Apostolius 14.78,
Appendix Proverbiorum 4.61.
[2] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Knights 719-721 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine; politics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 April 2003@05:01:46.
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