A proverb in reference to those quick to pay back [sc. what they owe].
*la/ros e)n e(/lesi: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n taxu\ a)podido/ntwn.
Likewise
Apostolius 10.48.
Photius,
Lexicon lambda103 Theodoridis gives the phrase as 'a gull in Nemesis', which one might have thought the preferable
lectio difficilior, but Theodoridis, while printing it, mentions Dindorf's rejection of it; also Dobree's suggestion that it is the title of a play by
Cratinus.
For proverbial gulls see also
lambda 127.
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