"It is terrible, O stranger, to awaken the evil that has been lying quiet for a long time" -- that is, to awaken and stir up things which happened unfortunately a long time ago. Nevertheless I desire to know the cause of your disability.1
And Callimachus [writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"?2 Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe that he throws and cries and doesn't want to hear anything bringing equal to equal." Meaning raw and harsh; figuratively from unripe grapes. For this is what the clusters are called when they are sour and not yet ripe. Contrariwise, that which is ripe and sweet [is called] pe/panos. [They say] o)/mfakas in the feminine. And Plato the comic poet in his play Festivals [writes]: "relax your eyebrows and your grapes." Bringing equal to equal means just and fair, from a metaphor of wine mixed equally with water. He says to speak and hear equally.3
And elsewhere: "men knowing how to eat and powerful of belly -- I mean of course Kleisophoses and Therons and Strouthiases and Chairephons."4
1Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 510-511 (web address 1), with scholion.↩
2CallimachusFragmenta incertae sedis 682 Pfeiffer.↩
3Aristophanes, Acharnians 352-354 (web address 2) with scholion; Plato Comicus fr. 32 Kock, now 31 K.-A. Again at omicron 315.↩
4Aelian fr.111a Domingo-Forasté (108 Hercher), quoted more fully at kappa 1762 (where the participle is ei)do/tas "knowing" rather than ble/pontas "looking" as here).