ε3971Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινον
they escaped a bad thing [and] found a better
[The saying] is applied to those who are coming from a bad thing to a better. For at Athens it was the custom during weddings for a boy whose mother and father were still alive to go about carrying thistles along with…
Ἔφυγον κακόν, εὗρον ἄμεινον· τάττεται ἐπὶ τῶν ἀπὸ κακοῦ εἰς κρεῖττον ἐλθόντων. ἔθος γὰρ Ἀθήνησιν ἐν γάμοις στρέφεσθαι ἀμφιθαλῆ παῖδα, ἀκάνθας μετὰ δρυΐνων καρπῶν φέροντα καὶ…