[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who have lived pure lives; to the extent that the steering-oar is always in the sea.
*(agno/teros phdali/ou: e)pi\ tw=n a(gnw=s bebiwko/twn: par' o(/son e)n qala/tth| dia\ panto/s e)sti to\ phda/lion.
Diogenianus 1.11 and other paroemiographers.
Presumably this proverb's effect turns on the purificatory properties of salt.
On the steering oars -- always in pairs -- of ancient ships, see
pi 1493 and
pi 1494, and generally Lionel Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1971) 224-8.
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