Assertion: proverb | /r/HasProperty | ancient
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text: Anti-proverbs are ancient, Aristophanes having used one in his play Peace, substituting κώẟων 'bell' (in the unique compound "bellfinch") for κύων 'bitch, female dog', twisting the standard and familiar "The hasty bitch gives birth to blind" to "The hasty bellfinch gives birth to blind".