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Headword:
Askon
derein
Adler number: alpha,4175
Translated headword: to flay a wine-skin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who volunteer to do something excessively. [He means] to flay my skin into a wine-skin. In order for it to be believed that he is abiding by the prescriptions, he added more than they had ordered and he says that he thinks nothing of his skin being flayed. For one who volunteers to undergo greater things would easily endure the lesser.[1]
Greek Original:Askon derein: epi tôn kath' huperbolên epangellomenôn prattein ti. to derma mou eis askon ekdermatizein. huper tou pisteuthênai auton emmenein tois hupokeimenois, prosethêke pleon ê ekeinoi epetaxan kai legei kataphronein ekderomenou tou dermatos. ho gar ta meizô epangellomenos hupomenein eucherôs an ta hêttona hupenenkoi.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 441 (442 Dover), where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1 below). Proverbial in
Diogenianus and other paroemiographers.
[1] This last sentence reappears at
upsilon 548, q.v.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; food; proverbs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 March 2002@22:26:16.
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