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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.

Greek Monolingual

θρῆνυς, ὁ (Α)
1. υποπόδιο
2. η έδρα τών κωπηλατών ή το εδώλιο του πηδαλιούχου.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Ομηρ. τ. του θράνος].