Thucydides [writes]: "and to buy the ground-up corn they wanted for a lot of money".[1]
Also [sc. the phrase] a)lhlesme/non bi/on ["a ground-up life"] some applied to those used to living on acorns, but others to those living easily; [ground-up] suggesting worked on, ready to eat.
Also [sc. attested is the proverbial phrase] a)lhlesme/nos bi/os, in reference to those with an ample supply of what they need. But another proverb says: "for [there are] no thorns".[2] It appears to recollect the change of life, previously wild and thorny, before tending the earth and seeds came about. Hence from this care came the saying a)lhlesme/non bi/on.[3]