*)en a)mou/sois kai\ ko/rudos fqe/ggetai.
In
Diogenianus 4.56 and other (later) paroemiographers in a form identical or very similar to this; also
Eustathius. LSJ s.v.
ko/rudos duly register it as a proverb of the 'in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king' type (for which cf. generally
epsilon 1147,
epsilon 1154). Modern editions of
Zenobius 3.77 seek to restore a more elaborate, metrical version: "for amongst the unmusical even a lark sings more melodiously than a swan".
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