A proverb applied to those who are very eager. It is derived from the men who loosen the rope-rigging.
*pa/nta ka/lwn sei/ein: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n pa/sh| proqumi/a| xrwme/nwn. parh=ktai de\ a)po\ tw=n ta\ a)/rmena xalw/ntwn.
Zenobius 5.62 (and other paroemiographers); cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 756 (web address 1). A sailing metaphor (already at
kappa 259), akin to our "full steam ahead" or "sails unfurled."
On the
ka/lws (Latin
rudens, modern brail), a line for shortening sail, see generally L. Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 230, 259, esp. 259 n.3 on this metaphor.
The proverb is also included in the entry
pi 222; see the note there.
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