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Headword:
*)anoina/rios
Adler number: alpha,2778
Translated headword: wineless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Like the common idiom.[1]
And [there is] a saying: "if he asks for wine, give him knuckles";[2] in reference to those asking for good things but receiving bad. The history [of this saying comes] from the Cyclops asking for wine and being blinded.[3]
Greek Original:*)anoina/rios: w(s h( koinh\ sunh/qeia. kai\ paroimi/a: *)\an oi)=non ai)th=|, kondu/lous au)tw=| di/dou: e)pi\ tw=n a)gaqa\ ai)tou/ntwn, kaka\ de\ lambano/ntwn. h( i(stori/a a)po\ tou= *ku/klwpos oi)=non ai)th/santos kai\ tuflwqe/ntos.
Notes:
[1] The headword occurs only here, and this gloss on it is opaque.
[2]
Comica adespota fr. 540 Kock (but not in K.-A.); cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 123, where there is mention of knuckles; also in some of the late paroemiographers..
[3] In
Homer,
Odyssey book 9.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 November 2000@22:36:04.
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