σκάλαυθρον
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
English (LSJ)
τό,
A oven-rake, gloss on σπαύλαθρον, Hsch.; on σπάλαυθρον, Phot.; cf. σκάλευθρον, σπάλαθρον.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σκάλαυθρον: καὶ σπάλαυθρον [ᾰ], τό, ὄργανον δι’ οὗ σκαλεύται ἢ ἀναδαυλίζεται τὸ πῦρ, Ἡσύχ., Φώτ.· ὁ Πολυδ. Ι΄, 113 ἔχει σπάλαθρον, καὶ ἐν Ζ΄, 22 σκάλευθρον· - οἱ δόκιμοι τύποι φαίνεται ὅτι εἶναι σκάλευθρον, σπάλαθρον.
Greek Monolingual
τὸ, Α
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) όργανο με το οποίο ανασκαλεύεται η φωτιά, το σκάλεθρο.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Η λ. προήλθε πιθ. από συμφυρμό τών λ. σκάλευθρον και σπάλαθρον.
