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Headword: *ptwxou= ph/ra ou) pi/mplatai
Adler number: pi,3056
Translated headword: a pauper's pouch is not filled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverb] in reference to the greedy.[1] Also, 'paupers' purses [are] always empty'.[2] Also, 'poorer than a leberis and a dabchick'.[3]
Greek Original:
*ptwxou= ph/ra ou) pi/mplatai: e)pi\ tw=n a)plh/stwn ei)/rhtai. kai/, *ptwxw=n ou)lai\ a)ei\ kenai/. kai/, *ptwxo/teros lebhri/dos kai\ kigka/lou.
Notes:
cf. generally pi 3051, pi 3052, pi 3054, pi 3055.
[1] See already at pi 1534.
[2] cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 4.62, also with the putative plural oulai (though differently accented). However, this is reckoned to be Callimachus fr. 724 (in the fragmenta incertae sedis), where Pfeiffer's text is ptwxw=n ou)la\s a)ei\ keneh/; see also at LSJ s.v. ou)la/s, II. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1811.
[3] See already at kappa 1580.
Keywords: daily life; economics; ethics; poetry; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 April 2010@07:12:02.
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Catharine Roth (supplemented translation, added keyword, set status) on 17 April 2010@00:42:00.
David Whitehead (more x-refs) on 18 April 2010@05:22:07.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2; another keyword) on 23 August 2010@03:31:58.
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