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Headword: *)epi\ troxou= dei= s' e)kei= streblou/menon ei)pei=n a(\ pepanou/rghkas:
Adler number: epsilon,2735
Translated headword: you must be racked there on the wheel and declare your villainies
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes in Wealth [sc. uses this phrase]. A saying in reference to villains. For there was a particular wheel in Athens, on which slaves were bound and punished.
Greek Original:
*)epi\ troxou= dei= s' e)kei= streblou/menon ei)pei=n a(\ pepanou/rghkas: *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|. paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n ponhrw=n. troxo\s ga/r tis h)=n e)n *)aqh/nais, e)n w(=| desmou/menoi oi( oi)ke/tai e)kola/zonto.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 875 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. See also tau 1072.
(Not, despite what is implied here, in the paroemiographers.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; law; proverbs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2003@03:39:30.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (cosmetics,added link, set status) on 18 June 2003@05:25:57.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 4 January 2005@05:27:59.
David Whitehead on 22 October 2012@06:23:20.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 8 November 2017@00:42:08.

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