Ὓς διὰ ῥόδων

a pig in roses

Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 17 words

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to clumsy and ill-bred people. Crates in Neighbors [sc. uses it].¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὓς διὰ ῥόδων· ἐπὶ τῶν σκαιῶν καὶ ἀναγώγων. Κράτης Γείτοσιν.

Betacode

*(\us dia\ r(o/dwn: e)pi\ tw=n skaiw=n kai\ a)nagw/gwn. *kra/ths *gei/tosin.

Likewise in Photius (upsilon296 Theodoridis), taken to come from Pausanias the Atticist (upsilon15). A variation on the 'bull in a china-shop' theme, as LSJ note (with other proverbial pigs) ad loc.
1Crates fr. 4 Kock (6 K.-A.) ↩

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