Ἡ κάμηλος ψωριῶσα πολλῶν ὄνων ἀνατίθεται φορτία
(even) a mangy she-camel takes up the load of many donkeys
Translated by David Whitehead16 Mar 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[no gloss]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἡ κάμηλος ψωριῶσα πολλῶν ὄνων ἀνατίθεται φορτία.
Betacode
*(h ka/mhlos ywriw=sa pollw=n o)/nwn a)nati/qetai forti/a.
Notes
- Adler cites this from Synesius, Letter 113 (254b), where in fact it is presented as already proverbial (see the translation of A. Fitzgerald at web address 1).
The paroemiographers who include it do so, as Synesius does, with akai/ ('even') omitted here; and they gloss it as applying to the aged or unfortunate who are still in good shape.
Another excerpt from the same letter appears at alpha 3321.
For camels see generally kappa 282.