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Headword:
*ou)
lo/gwn
a)gora\
dei=tai
*(ella/dos,
a)ll'
e)/rgwn
Adler number: omicron,906
Translated headword: Greece's market is in need not of words but of deeds
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to braggarts.
Greek Original:*ou) lo/gwn a)gora\ dei=tai *(ella/dos, a)ll' e)/rgwn: e)pi\ tw=n kompazo/ntwn.
Notes:
A variant of something already proverbial ('they say') in
Herodas 7.49-50 (which has coppers rather than deeds); nevertheless, neither version is in the paroemiographers.
Roman and later parallels in Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.2079.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2001@06:36:49.
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