α1077Ἅλας ἄγων καθεύδεις
you are asleep while carrying salt
[sc. A proverb] in reference to those sleeping or being idle in great danger. For when some merchant-shipper has filled the ship with salt, the bilge water comes up and the salt is dissolved. Whence also the [related]…
Ἅλας ἄγων καθεύδεις· ἐπὶ τῶν ἐν μεγάλῳ κινδύνῳ καθευδόντων καὶ ῥᾳστωνευομένων. ἐμπόρου γάρ τινος τὴν ναῦν ἁλῶν πληρώσαντος, τὴν ἀντλίαν ἐπαναβῆναι καὶ ἐκτῆξαι τοὺς ἅλας. ὅθεν καὶ…