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Headword: *)echpa/thsen h( xa/rac th\n a)/mpelon
Adler number: epsilon,1740
Translated headword: the stake deceived the vine
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase used] when that which is preserved[1] is deceived by that which preserves.
Greek Original:
*)echpa/thsen h( xa/rac th\n a)/mpelon: o(/tan u(po\ tou= sw/|zontos to\ sw=|zon e)capathqh=|.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Wasps 1291 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.71. See also eta 672, chi 97.
[1] Here the manuscripts read sw=|zon "that which saves," but Kuster emends to sw|zo/menon "that which is saved" on the basis of chi 97.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; daily life; imagery; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 July 2007@01:31:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked primary note) on 6 July 2007@03:26:38.
David Whitehead on 18 September 2012@04:32:04.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 18 September 2012@22:54:33.
David Whitehead (coding) on 17 January 2016@05:26:18.

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