Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Too Late
Plautus, Mostellaria 379-380 (tr. Paul Nixon):
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Oh, it's an awful business—waiting till thirst has you by the throat before you dig your well!See Robert H. Brophy, "'Digging a Well after You Are Thirsty': A Plautine and Chinese Proverb," Classical World 72.7 (April-May, 1979) 421-422.
miserum est opus
igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis faucis tenet.
