More foolish than Praxilla's Adonis

Explanation

Praxilla of Sicyon was a lyric poetess, as Polemon says. This Praxilla, in her songs, brings on Adonis being asked by those below what was the most beautiful thing he left behind in coming, and he answers: "the sun and the moon, and cucumbers and apples." Hence the saying turned into a proverb. For it is foolish to compare cucumbers with the sun.