Zenobius 3.60

You're being carried in a basket

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English

Proverb

Explanation

a kind of children's game; for he who carried someone "in a basket" used to put his hands behind him, while the one carried set his knees in them, and so was lifted.

Greek

Proverb

Ἐν κοτύλῃ φέρῃ

Explanation

παιδιᾶς εἶδος· ὁ γὰρ φέρων τινὰ ἐν κοτύλῃ, ἐποίει ὀπίσω τὰς χεῖρας, καὶ ὁ αἰρόμενος ἐνετίθει τὰ γόνατα, καὶ οὕτως ἐβαστάζετο.

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