Νυμφίου ______ ὑμεῖς ζῆτε.
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Νυμφίου βίον ὑμεῖς ζῆτε.Ὁ ______ πληθύνει λόγους.
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Ὁ ἄφρων πληθύνει λόγους.Οὐχ εὕδει Διὸς ______.
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Οὐχ εὕδει Διὸς ὀφθαλμός.Ὁ ______ οὐ πιστεύεται.
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Ὁ ψεύστης οὐ πιστεύεται.Ουδεὶς πεινῶν ______ ᾄδει.
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Ουδεὶς πεινῶν καλὰ ᾄδει.Νυμφίου βίον ὑμεῖς ζῆτε.
You are leading the life of the newlywed.
The proverbial "life of the newlywed" is a happy time, full of food and drink and without having to work. This saying appears in Aristophanes' Birds in this form, with the plural: νυμφίων, newlyweds: ὑμεῖς μὲν ἆρα ζῆτε νυμφίων βίον. The line is iambic: ὑμεῖς μὲν ἆ||ρα ζῆτε νυμ||φίων βίον.
Ὁ ἄφρων πληθύνει λόγους.
The fool multiplies his words.
This is a saying from the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. This is just one of many sayings in Ecclesiastes denouncing the wordiness of fools; the Greek ἄφρων is an alpha-private compound: ἄ-φρων, without-mind, "witless, foolish." The wide range of meanings of λόγος in Greek gives his kind of saying an ironic undertone: the fools has plenty of words, but not necessarily of the logical persuasion.
Οὐχ εὕδει Διὸς ὀφθαλμός.
The eye of Zeus does not sleep.
This is a fragment from a lost Greek tragedy; a fuller form of the saying adds: ἐγγὺς δ' ἐστὶ καίπερ ὢν πρόσω, "and he is near, even though being far away." On the etymology of the name of Zeus, see Wikipedia: Zeus.
Ὁ ψεύστης οὐ πιστεύεται.
The liar is not believed.
This saying is nicely illustrated by the famous Aesop's fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf; the liar is not believed even when he is telling the truth. The noun ψεύστης is related to the verb ψεύδω which you saw in a previous blog post: Πολλὰ ψεύδονται ἀοιδοί.
Ουδεὶς πεινῶν καλὰ ᾆδει.
No one who is hungry sings beautiful songs.
There is a rhyming Latin equivalent from the Middle Ages: Ieiunus venter non vult cantare libenter, "A hungry stomach will not gladly sing." The verb ᾄδω also appears in the form ἀείδω. As with so many important Greek words, the etymology is unknown.
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Νυμφίου βίον ὑμεῖς ζῆτε.Ὁ ______ πληθύνει λόγους.
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Ὁ ἄφρων πληθύνει λόγους.Οὐχ εὕδει Διὸς ______.
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Οὐχ εὕδει Διὸς ὀφθαλμός.Ὁ ______ οὐ πιστεύεται.
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Ὁ ψεύστης οὐ πιστεύεται.Ουδεὶς πεινῶν ______ ᾄδει.
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Ουδεὶς πεινῶν καλὰ ᾄδει.
And to finish up, here's a random proverb and a random LOLCat too:
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