Λευκὴν μᾶζαν φυρῶ σοι

I am mixing you a white barley-cake

Translated by David Whitehead5 May 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

9 words

A proverb in reference to those promising great things.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λευκὴν μᾶζαν φυρῶ σοι· παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν μεγάλα ὑπισχνουμένων.

Betacode

*leukh\n ma=zan furw= soi: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n mega/la u(pisxnoume/nwn.

Likewise in other lexica, and some of the paroemiographers: see the references at Photius lambda219 Theodoridis.
cf. generally mu 34, mu 35, mu 36.

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