οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
adj.
Dull, slow: P. and V. σκαιός, νωθής, ἀμαθής, ἀφυής, P. βλακικός , see dull.
Not eager: P. ἀπρόθυμος, ὀκνηρρός.
I am backward in the customs of the Greeks: V. λέλειμμαι τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησιν νόμων (Eur., Hel. 1246).
