Zenobius 2.67

Bunas is judging

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English

Proverb

Bunas is judging

Explanation

said of those who keep putting off and postponing their decisions. For Bunas was an Athenian, as Mnaseas says, to whom the Eleans, being at variance with the Calydonians, entrusted the case, supposing they had only to wait for him to give judgement. Bunas, learning this, listened to both parties but kept postponing his decision until his death.

Greek

Proverb

Βούνας δικάζει

Explanation

αὕτη λέγεται ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς κρίσεις ἀναβαλλομένων ἀεὶ καὶ ὑπερτιθεμένων. Βούνας γὰρ Ἀθηναῖος ἐγένετο, ὥς φησι Μνασέας· τούτῳ δὲ Ἡλεῖοι πρὸς Καλυδωνίους διαφερόμενοι ἐπέτρεψαν τὴν δίκην, νομίσαντες ἀναμένειν ἕως ἂν ἀποφήνηται. Γνοὺς δὲ ὁ Βούνας τοῦτο, ἤκουσε μὲν ἀμφοτέρων, ἀνεβάλλετο δὲ μέχρι τελευτῆς τὴν ἀπόφασιν.

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