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ε1154Ἐν δὲ διχοστασίῃ καὶ Ἀνδροκλέης πολεμαρχεῖat a time of division even Androkles is polemarchA proverb in reference to nonentities, who are thought worthy of honour through some accident. Of a similar kind is the one which says 'for in a hopeless situation even Karkinos got his share …Matched in translationhighshort
ε3973Ἐφ' ὕδωρon water-duty… and cf. Hesychius epsilon7550. See also epsiloniota 334 (for a proverb which includes the present headword phrase), kappa 1743, and generally Stephen Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 130-132. [1] In classical …Matched in noteshighshort