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Headword: *gu/rgaqos
Adler number: gamma,508
Translated headword: creel, wicker-cage
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
And [there is] a proverb: "you are blowing up a creel", in reference to those laboring in vain.[1]
So a gu/rgaqos [is] a couch [sic!], in which they whirl-around the palsied and demonic.[2]
Greek Original:
*gu/rgaqos. kai\ paroimi/a: *gu/rgaqon fusa=|s, e)pi\ tw=n ma/thn ponou/ntwn. *gu/rgaqos ou)=n kli/nh, e)n h(=| tou\s pare/tous kai\ daimoniw/deis strobou=si.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is also, Adler reports, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
See also under mu 219.
[1] Appendix Proverbiorum 1.89.
[2] The precise source of this addendum is unidentifiable, though in substance it corresponds to material in the medical writer Paul of Aegina (C7 CE), Epitomae medicae libri septem 3.14.3.
Keywords: daily life; definition; medicine; proverbs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 July 2002@14:27:34.
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