[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to things that are impossible.[1]
And things that are endless.[2]
*xu/tran poiki/llein: e)pi\ tw=n a)duna/twn. kai\ a)nhnu/twn.
For this proverbial expression -- once regarded as a fragment of comedy (
Comica adespota 921 Kock), but not in K.-A. -- see already under
omicron 399 (and
chi 135). Its point is that a chytra was a commonplace cooking-pot, not one of the fancier sorts that would, routinely, have been decorated.
[1] cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 5.33, etc.
[2] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss SC.
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