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- ι780Ἰχθυάᾳfishes, goes fishing… 12.95, where the headword occurs (of Scylla: sigma 709). [2] Apostolius 9.19, etc. For a similar proverb see delta 212.
- η271παροιμίαthe ten-company of Lykos, the ten-company of LycusSame entry in Photius, Lexicon eta133 Theodoridis; and cf. Apostolius 8.49. cf. delta 174, lambda 820. [NB: the SOL headword, incorrectly, is 'a proverb']
- κ2407Κρητίζεινto Cretanise, to play the Cretan, to speak like a Cretan… fully in Zenobius 4.62; see also next note. [3] cf. Apostolius 14.98 and other paroemiographers. See further at pi 2745. The claim that all Cretans are liars is attributed to the Cretan Epimenides (fr. …
- λ8Λάβραξbass… For 'Milesian basses' as a byword/proverb, applying to gluttons, see Apostolius 10.38; and for Miletus itself cf. mu 1060. [1] Etymologically 'grabby', thus greedy, a sense present in a couple of the associated terms, …
- ε3996ἜχετοςEchetus, Echetos… Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1092-1095; Hesychius s.v.; ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.48; Michael Apostolius s.v. *fala/ridos a)rxh\ kai\ *)exe/tou; and under beta 279 and tau 1187. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.84-86 (here abridged; see at web address 1); …
- μ1343Μωρότερος Μωρύχουmore stupid than Morychos; more stupid than Morychus… (the precursor of the present entry), Zenobius 5.13, and Michael Apostolius 11.91; cf. Plutarch, *paroimi/ai ai(=s *)Alecandrei=s e)xrw=nto 1.40 (s.v. *mwru/xou *dionu/sou) and Pausanias, *)attikw=n o)noma/twn sunagwgh/ s.v. mwro/teros ei)= *moru/xou. Also mu 1266 …
- ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenides… [5] See generally sigma 776. [6] (Or: secrets.) Diogenianus 8.28, Apostolius 7.73. For apotheta cf. alpha 3317.