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Headword: Ὁ κάνης τῆς τύχης ὑπερέχει
Adler number: omicron,103
Translated headword: The doormat surpasses the bed
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

[A proverb] applied to those who own more and better [un]necessary things than necessary ones.

Greek Original:

Ὁ κάνης τῆς τύχης ὑπερέχει: ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ ἀναγκαῖα μείζω καὶ πλείω τῶν ἀναγκαίων κεκτημένων.

Note:

Crates fr.12 Kock, quoted several times in lexicography (e.g. Pollux 10.90). The Suda's version not only omits a crucial negative from the gloss, as indicated, but corrupts the second noun in the headword phrase itself, from κοίτης ('bed') to τύχης ('luck').

Keywords: comedy; daily life; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 September 2002@08:04:47.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth on 30 September 2002@11:05:33.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 11 April 2011@06:13:31.

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