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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

German (Pape)

[Seite 855] ὁ, ein Windbeutel, der Alles durch einander schwatzt, so nannte ein Komiker den Demosthenes, Plut. Dem. 9 D. L. 2, 108; dies Geschwätz selbst ῥωποπερπερήθρα, ἡ, wofür man auch ῥωποστωμυλήθρα u. ῥομβοστωμυλήθρα sagte, vgl. Com. IV, 618.