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Headword:
*)/earos
xrh/|zei
Adler number: epsilon,11
Translated headword: is in want of spring
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Because [he] has an old tunic. And
Aristophanes [writes]: "he seems to be in need of not a few swallows." For one swallow does not make a spring.
*)/earos xrh/|zei: e)peidh\ palaio\n xitw=na e)/xei. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: dei=sqai d' e)/oiken ou)k o)li/gwn xelido/nwn. mi/a ga\r xelidw\n e)/ar ou) poiei=.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 1417 (web address 1), with scholion. (The preceding line, 1416, has mentioned a cloak.) The present headword phrase comes from those
scholia, but appears as proverbial in its own right in
Appendix Proverbiorum 2.3.
The proverb "One swallow does not make a spring" (we would say "summer"),
Cratinus fr. 33 Kock, now 35 K.-A., is quoted by
Aristotle at
Nicomachean Ethics 1098a16 (web address 2); cf.
mu 1030, and see generally Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.705.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 June 2002@00:59:40.
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