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Headword: *tau=ta pra/sswn, fa/sk' a)nh\r ou)de\n poiw=n
Adler number: tau,173
Translated headword: these things [I am] doing -- claimed a man doing nothing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Cratinus in Seasons [sc. writes this]. For the proverb [is] in reference to those doing nothing.
Greek Original:
*tau=ta pra/sswn, fa/sk' a)nh\r ou)de\n poiw=n: *krati=nos *(/wrais. h( ga\r paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n mhde\n poiou/ntwn.
Notes:
= Photius, Lexicon tau81 Theodoridis. Cratinus fr. 252 Kock (272 K.-A.), as conventionally emended (the first verb finite and the phrase as a whole metrical).
Not in the paroemiographers.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 April 2003@08:40:30.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 25 September 2004@00:21:16.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 27 September 2004@04:09:19.
David Whitehead on 12 August 2011@06:26:36.
David Whitehead on 7 January 2014@06:02:34.
David Whitehead on 11 March 2014@04:50:18.
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