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Headword:
*ou)/te
su\n
panwle/qroisin,
ou)d'
a)/neu
panwle/qrwn
Adler number: omicron,969
Translated headword: neither with utter ruin nor without utter ruin
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb. "Women [are an] evil; but nevertheless, o demesmen, it is not possible to find a household without evil."[1] And
Aristophanes [writes]: "and that saying is rightly said and not badly, 'neither with utter ruin etc.'"
*ou)/te su\n panwle/qroisin, ou)d' a)/neu panwle/qrwn: paroimi/a. kako\n gunai=kes: a)ll' o(/mws, w)= dhmo/tai, ou)k e)/stin eu(rei=n oi)ki/an a)/neu kakou=. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: ka)/st' e)kei=no tou)=pos o)rqw=s kou) kakw=s ei)rhme/non, ou)/te su\n panwle/qroisi, kai\ ta\ e(ch=s.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 1038-9 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
tau 829.
[1] (?)Susarion fr. 1 Kock (and Kassel-Austin); also fr. 1 West; and S.D. Olson,
Broken Laughter I1 (= pp.321 with 328-330).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; ethics; poetry; proverbs; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 July 2010@00:30:30.
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