ἀγροῦ πλέως -> boorish, full of rusticity

[spiros]

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prov., οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, ἀγροῦ πλέως, i.e. boorish
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[billberg23]

The "ἀγροῦ πλέως, i.e. boorish" ("full of rusticity") refers only to ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, not to the negation (οὐδὲν).  The Oxford boys are often confusing like that.
Cf. Hesychius <ἀγροῦ πλέως>· ἀγροικίας πλήρης "full of boorishness"
Cf. Michael Apostolius Paroemiographus, Collectio paroemiarum Centuria 13, section 43, line 1 <Οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις:> ἤγουν οὐδὲν ἄγροικον "i.e. nothing rustic/boorish"