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δ1441Δωδεκάκρουνον στόμαtwelve-spouted mouthFor Cratinus praised himself in Putine saying: "Lord Apollo, the springs of the flow of verses resound, a twelve-spouted mouth, I would say Ilissos in the throat, will inundate with words unless someone stops …Matched in translationhighshort
α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [are] a city's ruinCratinus in Seriphians [sc. uses the phrase]. They also call them morgoi, taking away the alpha, as in other cases: for they call amauron mauron and asphodelon sphodelon.Matched in translationhighshort
α4576Ἀφελέςsimple… account of his former victories." That is, often esteemed. For Cratinus praised himself in the Pytine, saying: "Lord Apollo, the rushing founts of the current of words, the twelve-springed source, the Ilissos of the …

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Δωδεκάκρουνον στόμα

twelve-spouted mouth

For Cratinus praised himself in Putine saying: "Lord Apollo, the springs of the flow of verses resound, a twelve-spouted mouth, I would say Ilissos in the throat, will inundate with words unless someone stops up his…

Δωδεκάκρουνον στόμα· ὁ γὰρ Κρατῖνος ἑαυτὸν ἐπῄνεσεν ἐν Πυτίνῃ λέγων· ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, τῶν ἐπῶν τοῦ ῥεύματος καναχοῦσι πηγαί, δωδεκάκρουνον στόμα, Ἰλισσὸς ἐν τῇ φάρυγγι ἂν εἴποιμι, εἰ…

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αι64Αἴγληradiance; Aigle[Meaning] a throw at dice, brilliance, gleam. Cratinus [sc. uses the word]. And [sc. in so doing] he reveals [that it is] a type of round sacrificial cake, and rite of sacrifice, as Leagoras …Matched in translationhighshort

αι237Αἲξ οὐρανίαheavenly goat… put a question to the vote and elect [sc. officials]. Cratinus [says that] just as the goat Amaltheia was Zeus' nurse, so too a heavenly goat was [the nurse of] those accepting bribes. But …Matched in translationhighmedium

α767Ἄθυρμαplaything… road as a plaything for Pan". Meaning as a delight. Cratinus in Odysseuses: "a novel plaything had been introduced".Matched in translationhighshort

α1391Ἀλώπηξ οὐ δωροδοκεῖταιa fox does not take bribes… in reference to those not easily won over by bribes. Cratinus in Laws [writes]: "each one of you is a fox who takes bribes"Matched in translationhighshort

α2059Ἀναρύτεινto draw as from a well… formed] from the [verb] a)ru/esthai ["to draw water for oneself"]. Cratinus in Rehearsals [writes]: "when you drew up the fine Dionysos-hymns and were hated [for it]."Matched in translationhighshort

α2285Ἀνεπάγγελτοςuninvited[Meaning] unbidden. Cratinus in Dionysus Masquerading as Paris [writes]: "one of these leech-throated uninvited who has come for dinner."Matched in translationhighshort

α2305Ἀνεπτεροῦτοwas on tiptoe with excitement… yuxh/n ["to excite the soul"], that is to arouse [it]. Cratinus [sc. uses it].Matched in translationhighshort

α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… worthy, so that [one should] take it." It is in Cratinus. Homer was the first to use this figure: "for you shall be easier to slay, with that man dead." And elsewhere: "it is …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… a spider's web in weight". Callimachus [writes]: "a spider's-web work". Cratinus in Pytinê [writes]: "you are holding your stomach in the middle of spiders' webs." Pherecrates in Tyranny [writes]: "so spiders' webs just as …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… is] "in Drapetides" ["Runaway Women"] in the feminine form in Cratinus.Matched in translationhighmedium

ε3444Εὔερονfleecy, cushy… the fleeciness, with the result that it is very miserable." Cratinus [in] Pylaia [writes]: "fleecy tongue of men."Matched in translationhighshort

α645Ἀείφρουροςalways on watch, everlasting… a)eiqalh/s "always waiting, evergreen". The word is attested in Sophocles, Cratinus (quoted by Hesychius, above), and elsewhere; see LSJ s.v. at web address 1 below.Matched in noteshighshort

α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him… for a bitter character (Les Images d'Aristophane, 1965, 197-98). When Cratinus (fr. 6 Kock and Kassel-Austin) calls Archilochus "the marinade of Thasos", who 'bow wows' (bau/zei, of the snarling or barking of an angry …Matched in noteshighshort

β459Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃyou are an ox sitting in a courtyardIn Cratinus fr. 32 Kock, now 34 K.-A. Same or similar entry in Hesychius and some of the paroemiographers. (The modern equivalent might be: a square peg in a round hole.) cf. beta 458 …Matched in noteshighshort

δ698Διαπηνικίσαιto pull the wig over… of diaphniki/zw. It is presumably extracted from somewhere -- probably Cratinus (fr. 282 Kock, now 304 K.-A.), to whom the grammarian Pausanias and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 269.31 attribute this very rare verb. [1] Actually …Matched in noteshighshort