εἰς τετρημένον πίθον ἀντλεῖν → run water into a punctured pitcher, to the perforated jar bale water, labour in vain, labor in vain
P. σπήλαιον, τό (Plato), Ar. and V. ἄντρον, τό, αὔλιον, τό, V. θαλάμαι, αἱ, P. and V. σῆραγξ, ἡ (Sophocles, Fragment; Plato, Phaedo, 110A); see den.
