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Headword:
*(upe/rou
peritroph/
Adler number: upsilon,341
Translated headword: pestle's revolution
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those doing the same things and accomplishing nothing. The following proverbs also show this: "Korinthos son of Zeus",[1] and "yet again the road to Pytho",[2] and "the man carrying the beam", and "not blind: rather, [with eyes] gouged out".
Plato in
Adonis [writes]: "with luck, for me it will not be a pestle's revolution".[3]
*(upe/rou peritroph/: e)pi\ tw=n ta\ au)ta\ poiou/ntwn kai\ mhde\n peraino/ntwn. kai\ au(=tai d' ai( paroimi/ai tou=to dhlou=sin: o( *dio\s *ko/rinqos. kai/, au)=qis au)= *puqw/de o(do/s. kai/, o( th\n doko\n fe/rwn. kai/, ou) tuflo/s, a)ll' e)cw/ruktai. *pla/twn *)adw/nidi: ei)=t' ou)x u(pe/rou moi peritroph\ genh/setai.
Notes:
Same or similar entries in other lexica (references at
Photius upsilon133 Theodoridis), and several of the paroemiographers; and see also
upsilon 342.
[1]
delta 1207.
[2]
Comica adespota fr. 700 Kock, but not in K.-A.
[3]
Plato Comicus fr. 1 Kock (and K.-A.).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 August 2010@07:34:00.
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