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Χύτραν ποικίλλειν
to decorate a cooking-pot
For this
proverbial
expression -- once regarded as a fragment of comedy (Comica adespota 921 Kock), but not in K.-A. -- see already under omicron 399 (and chi 135). Its point is that a …
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Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… 'a wailing, curlew-like koo-ree.' This is probably the Greek charadrios
(proverbial
for its gluttony at Plato, Gorgias 494B). Pisetaerus congratulates Tereus at line 266 on his imitation of this bird. We should take this …
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