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1510
Ἅμματα
[Kasiotic] knots
[sc. A
proverbial
phrase] in reference to those who are crooked in their ways. [So called] from the Pelousians in Kasion, who by natural skill used to weave knots in order to attach one …
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171
Χαιριδεῖς
Chairideis
… come, to play the pipes uninvited". And [there is] a
proverb:
'Chairis singing in a steep-pitched style'. The steep-pitched [is] a style [no/mos] for playing the pipe, so called because it was rising and …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… gay man (lambda 264, lambda 278, pi 3225, cf. the
proverb
for homosexual acts, ta\ *kinhsi/ou dra=| 'he does the acts of Cinesias': Michael Apostolius,
Proverbs
15.89) and lampooned for his gruesome appearance, covered …
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3729
Ἀράβιος ἄγγελος
Arabian messenger
… Dedicated Girl or Messenian Woman [uses the phrase]. From the
proverb
[about the] "Arabian piper". "So I started an Arabian pipe going"; it is applied to those who speak incessantly. Long ago, they say, …
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587
Βύβλον
Byblian
… by the voice [applying?] to all." And [there is] a
proverb:
"but a Byblian's seedhead does not hold a big ear," in reference to those who are not able to make do with their …
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4121
Ἀρχύτας
Archytas, Arkhutas
… was plainly a teacher of Empedocles. And [there is] a
proverb:
Archytas' rattle; [coined] because Archytas invented the rattle, which is a kind of instrument producing sound and noise. "He made a bronze rattle …
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1461
Δώριος
Dorian
… the Dorian mode of his fortune." And [there is] a
proverb:
"from a Dorian to a Phrygian." "I shall not present well-rounded phrases [as proems and preludes ...] but setting forth the plain expressions …
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1516
Δραχμή
drachma
… to be enrolling among the pious. And [there is] a
proverb:
"for a drachma he plays the pipes, but for four he stops." See under "Arabian messenger."
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3756
Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύειν
painful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senseless
… (line 625) of a gnomic couplet of Theognis; registered as
proverbial
by Diogenianus (2.90) and other paroemiographers. [2] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.471, where a)rgale/on occurs. [3] Lejeune (below) 151 accepts this …
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295
Βίος ἀκανθώδης
a thorny life
[1] The headword phrase sounds
proverbial,
like the others assembled for this entry, but it does not feature in the paroemiographers, and is indeed not otherwise attested. [2] For this and "a ready-kneaded life" …
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589
Διακόνιον
diakonion, flat-cake
… and notes that the 'in reference to' idiom suggests something
proverbial.
[5] A Macedonian lexicographer of the third century BCE (cited in the Suda here only). See generally L. Cohn, "Amerias," RE 1 (1894) …
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