Κακὴ μὲν ὄψις

face [is] bad

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A clause of a proverbial saying. "The face [is] bad, but in [= behind] [it are] cowardly thoughts". Menander [uses the phrase] in Sicyonian.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κακὴ μὲν ὄψις· κόμμα παροιμίας. κακὴ μὲν ὄψις, ἐν δὲ δειλαῖαι φρένες. Μένανδρος Σικυωνίῳ.

Betacode

*kakh\ me\n o)/yis: ko/mma paroimi/as. kakh\ me\n o)/yis, e)n de\ deilai=ai fre/nes. *me/nandros *sikuwni/w|.

Same entry in Photius, Lexicon kappa81 Theodoridis, deriving from Pausanias the Atticist (kappa4).
1Menander fr. 441 Kock (5 Sandbach) -- though NB: in Stobaeus this quotation is attributed to another play (Dagger) by another poet of New Comedy, Philemon (fr. 21 Kock and K.-A.); cf. in any event Diogenianus 5.89, Apostolius 9.23. ↩

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