ὑπόβαθρον
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
τό,
A anything put under, a base: 1 footstool, Thphr.HP5.7.6, App.Pun.111, D.L.1.94; ὑ. νυμφικά IG22.1485.54. 2 a wooden framework to support a couch, a kind of rocking apparatus, X.Mem.2.1.30, Antyll. ap. Orib.6.23.3, Anon. ap. Stob.4.31.84. 3 keel of a ship, prob. for ὑποβάραθρον in Gal.19.169. 4 step, δἰ ὑποβάθρων Lyd.Mag.2.11, 3.41.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1210] τό, Alles, was man unterstellt oder untersetzt, Grundlage, Fundament, Fußbank, Sp.; auch Fußteppich, wie man erkl. Xen. Mem. 2, 1, 30 οὐ μόνον τὰς στρωμνάς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς κλίνας καὶ τὰ ὑπόβαθρα ταῖς κλίναις παρασκευάζεις.
