Παραλοῦμαι
I am bathing together
Translated by David Whitehead23 Apr 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. Something said] proverbially. For previously the rich used to bathe together with the poor in the baths. Aristophanes in Anagyrus [says]: "but everyone should bathe together and share the sponges."1 That is, [the poor] should go in with the rich, so that they need not take sponges but use theirs.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παραλοῦμαι· παροιμιακῶς. εἰώθεισαν γὰρ πρότερον ἐν τοῖς βαλανείοις οἱ πλούσιοι παραλούειν τοὺς πένητας. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἀναγύρῳ· ἀλλὰ πάντας χρὴ παραλοῦσθαι καὶ τοὺς σπόγγους ἐᾶν. οἷον συνεισιέναι τοῖς πλουσίοις, ὥστε μηδὲ σπόγγους φέρειν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἐκείνων χρῆσθαι.
Betacode
*paralou=mai: paroimiakw=s. ei)w/qeisan ga\r pro/teron e)n toi=s balanei/ois oi( plou/sioi paralou/ein tou\s pe/nhtas. *)aristofa/nhs *)anagu/rw|: a)lla\ pa/ntas xrh\ paralou=sqai kai\ tou\s spo/ggous e)a=n. oi(=on suneisie/nai toi=s plousi/ois, w(/ste mhde\ spo/ggous fe/rein, a)lla\ toi=s e)kei/nwn xrh=sqai.
Notes (1)
- Other lexica too characterise this as proverbial (references at Photius pi267), but it is not in most of the the collections. Compare in any event pi 337, with alternative versions of the headword (and different senses, accordingly, of the proverb).
- 1Aristophanes fr. 55 Kock (59 K.-A.). ↩
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — David Whitehead