κ31Κάθαμμα λύεις
you are undoing a knot
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those attempting to undo something which is hard to undo. From the waggon of Midas. For an oracle had been issued to the Phrygians [which said] that if anyone could untie the…
Κάθαμμα λύεις· ἐπὶ τῶν δύσλυτόν τι λύειν ἐπιχειρούντων. ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμάξης Μίδου. λόγιον γὰρ τοῖς Φρυξὶν ἐκπεπτώκει, τῆς κομισάσης τὸν Μίδαν ἁμάξης εἴ τις ἐπιλύσειε τὸν δεσμόν, τοῦτον…