εἰς τετρημένον πίθον ἀντλεῖν → run water into a punctured pitcher, to the perforated jar bale water, labour in vain, labor in vain
cĕrăs: ătis, n., = κέρας (a horn),
I a kind of wild parsnip, App. Herb. 80.—
II Hesperion Ceras, = Εσπέριον κέρας, a mountain on the west coast of Libya, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 197.