Οὔθ' ὕεται οὔτε ἡλιοῦται

it is neither raining nor sunny

Translated by David Whitehead28 Oct 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

13 words

Translation

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to matters that lie beyond all calculation.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Οὔθ' ὕεται οὔτε ἡλιοῦται· ἐπὶ τῶν ἔξω πάσης φροντίδος ὄντων.

Betacode
*ou)/q' u(/etai ou)/te h(liou=tai: e)pi\ tw=n e)/cw pa/shs fronti/dos o)/ntwn. 

Notes

  1. cf. Zenobius 5.53 and other paroemiographers.
    For another proverb about rain, see omicron 394.

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Revision history3 revisions · last 1 Aug 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. x-ref — David Whitehead
  3. set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“it is neither raining nor sunny.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 28 October 2009. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omicron/841>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omicron/841>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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