aplestos pithos (Greek): A cask that will never fill; an endless job. (The allusion is to the Danaides, who, for the murder of their husbands, were condemned to draw water in sieves.)
Simply Latin (and a bit of Greek)
aplestos pithos (Greek): A cask that will never fill; an endless job. (The allusion is to the Danaides, who, for the murder of their husbands, were condemned to draw water in sieves.)