Μύλλος πάντα ἀκούει

Mullos hears everything

Translated by David Whitehead13 Oct 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

13 words

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those feigning dumbness and hearing everything.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μύλλος πάντα ἀκούει· ἐπὶ τῶν κωφότητα προσποιουμένων καὶ πάντα ἀκουόντων.

Betacode

*mu/llos pa/nta a)kou/ei: e)pi\ tw=n kwfo/thta prospoioume/nwn kai\ pa/nta a)kouo/ntwn.

Cratinus fr. 89 Kock, now 96 K.-A.
The paroemiographers (e.g. Zenobius 5.14) construe Mul(l)os as a proper name and identify him as a comic poet (who feigned deafness); but lower-case mu/llos is a fish, the mullet.

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