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λ218Λεβηρίςslough, cast skin… skin which a snake sheds. And [sc. there is] a proverb: "blinder than a cast skin and a peg." It is a kind of bird, fleshless and thin. Otherwise [sc. the reading is] gumno/teros …Matched in translationhighshort
λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than LynkeusThe proverbial phrase which provides the present headword is employed in Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 210, the scholia to which are drawn upon here; cf. also Aristophanes fr.260. [1] The sons of Aphareus (cousins of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ845Λυπηρότεροι σταλαγμοῦmore vexing than a drool[sc. This proverbial phrase] is said because of the disgust in continuous dribbling.Matched in translationhighshort
λ410Λήθαργος κύωνlazy dog, lethargic dog… Hesychius and (showing that the headword phrase was, or became, proverbial) Zenobius 4.90 and other paroemiographers; and cf. lambda 178. For the adjective contrast lambda 409.Matched in noteshighshort
λ756Λοιμεύεταιis pestilent… quoted from somewhere, but more probably it is mis-quoted from Proverbs 19.19 LXX, which has the corresponding subjunctive, loimeu/htai; cf. Hesychius s.v. [1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to an ancient Life of Pythagoras. For …Matched in noteshighshort