εἰς τὸν τετρημένον πίθον ἀντλεῖν → run water into a punctured pitcher, to the perforated jar bale water, labour in vain, labor in vain
[Seite 628] poet. statt πλέκω; πλεγνύμενος, Opp. Cyn. 3, 213; Hal. 1, 311.
