[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those without a voice. Inasmuch as when the frogs in Seriphos were carried to
Skyros they did not make a sound.
*ba/traxos e)k *seri/fou: e)pi\ tw=n a)fw/nwn. paro/son oi( e)n *seri/fw| ba/traxoi komisqe/ntes ei)s *sku=ron ou)k e)fqe/ggonto.
cf.
Diogenianus 3.44 and other paroemiographers.
Seriphos was a proverbially insignificant (cf. e.g.
Plutarch,
Themistocles 18 [web address 1]) little island in the south Aegean Sea.
Skyros is a larger one -- though still, too, proverbially insignificant:
alpha 4101 -- further north. Why Seriphian frogs should have been taken there, if they truly were, is beyond conjecture.
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