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- α2537Ἄνθρωπος λυπησιλόγοςa man who gives pain by talking… means he who is paining those nearby because of his talking. Cratinus [sc. uses the phrase].
- χ325Χθιζοίyesterday's men… useless. Also [sc. attested is the form] xqizino/s, [also meaning] yesterday's.
- ε3521Εὐθυρρήμωνstraight-talking[Meaning] truth-speaking. Also [sc. attested is] a verb eu)qurhmonw= ["I am a straight-talker"]. When Aristophanes says to\ dei=na ["such-and-such"], he avoids saying directly that what is about to be said is distasteful, so that …
- μ384ΜεγαρίζοντεςMegarizing; acting like Megarians; talking like Megarians[Meaning those who are] suffering from famine; or talking big.
- ε3887Ἐφεῖτοadvised[Meaning he/she/it] enjoined. Aristophanes [writes]: "so yesterday Kleon advised us to come early."
- αι37Αἰγιάζεινto talk of goats"But you sit here talking of goats."
- ε2995Ἐριννύων ἀπορρώξFuries' limb, Furies' off-shoot… ugly. "Did a Fury not forge this sword?" He is talking about Ajax. Also, search for the Furies under "Eumenides."
- ε1297Ἕνηold… [the participle] e)/xwn [in the idiom] lhrei=s e)/xwn ['keep on talking nonsense', where 'talking nonsense' alone would suffice]. See generally LSJ s.v. e)/xw, B.III.2.
- α4075Ἀρχαῖοςsimple… naive. Plato [sc. uses the word in this sense]. Or [talking?] nonsense. But [the related adverb] a)rxai/ws [means] carelessly, unobservantly; or even foolishly, naively. "[They] humming tunes simple-honeyed-Sidon-Phrynichus-lovely."
- ε745Ἐλασίβροντ' ἀναρρηγνὺς ἔπηbreaking forth thunder-driving words… ['Thunder-driving'] meaning [things] driven by thunder, that is [he is] talking big and using expressions that are overly weighty and full of noise. Either he is mocking Kleon for his voice, since he used …
- α2683ἈντίμαχοςAntimachus, Antimachos, Antimakhos… Psekas ["Sputterer"] since he sprinkled [with spit] whomever he was talking with. There was also an Olympian called Psekas because of this. This Antimachus resolved to propose a decree to forbid the satirizing of …
- α3459Ἀπ' ὄνου καταπεσώνhaving fallen from a donkey… handle donkeys. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "why, pray, are you talking nonsense, as if you had fallen from a donkey?" But the philosopher Plato says the proverb with "the mind" taking the place of …
- αι165Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτοif he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just… the sprat? Has my last year's bowl perished? Where is yesterday's garlic? Who nibbled on the olives?'" These [are] all trivial matters. But "perished" [is used] instead of "is broken."
- ε2766ἘπίχαρμοςEpicharmos, Epicharmus… appears to have argued that a debtor who borrowed money yesterday does not owe it today, since he is already a different man from the borrower; and that the man whom you invited yesterday …
- κ504Καταγλωττίσματαtongued-downs… neuter noun in -ma, from the verb for tonguing or talking down (kappa 503), or using too many rare words. It should therefore be used for concrete things such as plasters put in place …
- α1356Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματιso did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?… with scholion. (The participle laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is talking to, and about, a woman.)
- δ1370Δοξάσαιto suppose… fr.118). [2] An approximation of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 911-913 (Jocasta talking to the magistrates of Thebes); it contains not the headword verb but the related noun. [3] Stoic doctrine: an approximation of Diogenes Laertius …
- χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), with comment from the scholia there. The negative ou)k is not in Aristophanes' text.
- η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the herald… [Hermes] of these tidings'; that is what really Cario means, talking to Hermes. The scholion mentioned above reports and analyses both senses, but the Suda’s compiler only reports one. [1] Despite this gloss, reflected …
- δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is talking of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …