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α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… fr. 228. [6] Aristophanes, Frogs 614 (web address 4). Later proverbial: Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1685. [7] = Synagoge (Codex B) alpha1562; Photius, Lexicon alpha2181 Theodoridis. de Borries identifies this and the following …Matched in noteshighmedium
α249Ἀγκώνelbow… 2); the first adjective is garbled here. [7] cf. Mantissa Proverbiorum 3.31 and the quotation which follows here. [8] Diogenes Laertius 4.46. [9] gamma 316.Matched in noteshighmedium
α1510Ἅμματα[Kasiotic] knots… pi 1516. "Knots" alone as a headword doesn't constitute a proverbial phrase; "Kasiotic" must have dropped out in the Suda compiler's source. The same applies to alpha 1459. [2] This doesn't make sense. In …

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Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθός

the wage [is] worth taking

This [is in reference to] those trained for beauty, meaning something like this: "the wage is 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…

Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθός· τοῦτο τῶν εἰς κάλλος ἠσκημένων σημαῖνον τοιόνδε τι· ἄξιός ἐστιν ὁ μισθὸς, ὥστε λαβεῖν αὐτόν. ἔστι δὲ παρὰ Κρατίνῳ. Ὅμηρος δὲ πρῶτον ἐχρήσατο τῷ σχήματι…

trade and manufacture

trade and manufacture

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ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between the geographical location of his kingdom and the fact that Zenobius (above) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε695Ἐκκυβεύεινto gamble (everything) on dice… common in Greek, of gambling all on battle, see the proverbs "Let the die be cast (or, rather, tossed)" (alpha 2310, epsilon 3013, kappa 2591, kappa 2602) and "Triple six or just three dice" …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3408Εὐδαίμων ὁ Κορίνθιος ἐγὼ δ' εἴην Τενεάτηςfortunate is Corinth but for myself I would rather be a Teneate… Korinthos into the unmetrical Korinthios. The headword phrase was already proverbial in the time of Strabo, who classifies it as an oracular response (8.6.22). See J. Fontenrose, The Delphic oracle: its responses and operations …Matched in noteshighshort

χ171ΧαιριδεῖςChairideis… scholia, which are compiled in the entry here. [5] Appendix Proverbiorum 5.21. On the o)/rqios [no/mos] see nu 478, omicron 574, omicron 575 and omicron 585 and the notes there. [6] Homer, Iliad 11.10-11 …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ273Δεσμοὶ ΤυρρηνοίEtruscan chains, Etruscan fetters… Hesychius, whose (mysterious) gloss is 'the ones [the] Athenians used'. Proverbial in Apostolius 5.97, with the same glossing as here. In Appendix Proverbiorum 1.96 a second sentence of explanation is added: 'applied to those …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… 'a wailing, curlew-like koo-ree.' This is probably the Greek charadrios (proverbial for its gluttony at Plato, Gorgias 494B). Pisetaerus congratulates Tereus at line 266 on his imitation of this bird. We should take this …Matched in noteshighlong

ε3348Ἐοίκασι τοῖς ἐκ Πύλου ληφθεῖσι τοῖς Λακωνικοῖςthey look like those taken out of Pylos -- the Lakonians… soi dokou=sin ei)ke/nai;, 'What do they look like to you?') Proverbial in Appendix Proverbiorum 2.74. [2] cf. kappa 1731. For the events of 425 BCE, see Thucydides 4.3-41. A total of 292 Spartans who …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project… as a compliment to his patron, Scipio Aemilianus. [3] This proverb is the second line of an elegiac couplet, listed as of unknown authorship in Iambi et Elegi, ed. M.L. West, vol.2 (2nd. edn., …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3141Ἐσθλά[things] good [of their kind]… L. Bachmann 1.237.5 and Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.435.30. [1] For this proverb (from an unknown elegiac epigram similar to those in the collection ascribed to Theognis) see epsilon 2239, note 2. [2] Polybius 15.16.6, here …Matched in noteshighshort

α1052Ἀλλὰ γάρbut for all that… fr. 68 Kock, now 77 K.-A. See Denniston 107. [2] Proverb used by [Plato], Critias 108C (see web address 1 below); see generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.856. On trophies cf. tau 1049 …Matched in noteshighshort

β329Βλέπειν γὰρ ἄντικρυς δόξεις μ' Ἄρηfor you will think that I look a downright Ares… The form of the gloss implies that the line became proverbial, and so it (eventually) did: see Apostolius 4.98. The chorus is parodying tragedic phraseology, e.g. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 53.Matched in noteshighshort

χ444Χωρὶς ἱππεῖςcavalry away!… and attacked. For this see Rhodes (below) 4. Such a 'proverb', in any event, appears only here, i.e. not in any of the paroemiographers; and the headword phrase itself is otherwise attested only once …Matched in noteshighshort

α2287Ἀνεπαρίασανthey broke treaties like the Parians… single word in the Greek. A fuller version of this proverb (Zenobius 2.21 and other paroemiographers) occurs in Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Paros, quoting Ephorus (FGrH 70 F63). The episode in question is the …Matched in noteshighshort

α537Ἀδύνατα εἶναιto be impossibles… is cast'), kappa 2591 and phi 5 (end); also the proverb "Triple six or three aces" (eta 635, tau 934, tau 1006).Matched in noteshighshort

α876Ἀκίδαςbarbs… in Hesychius, where Latte suggests it may be quoted from Proverbs 25.18 LXX (of an arrow).Matched in noteshighshort

α2424Ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὸς διαφέρειone man differs from another.… this is Cassius Dio 36.16.3, albeit here rearranged (with the proverb first) and reworded. (See again, from "For..." onwards, at omicron 485.) Cn. Pompeius Magnus took over the command of the Mithridatic War from …Matched in noteshighshort

α2901Ἅπαντα γάρ τοι βρωτὰ πολιορκουμένοιςfor all things are food to the besiegedThe proverb in this form (Arsenius 3.58a has an abbreviated one, with no gloss) is a line of hexameter iambic verse. [1] An oblique reference to cannibalism.Matched in noteshighshort

α3903ἈριστείδηςAristides, Aristeides… requires it to be construed differently, as a species of proverb: "worthy of Miltiades and Aristeides".Matched in noteshighmedium

α4669ἈχαΐαAkhaia, Achaia, Achaea… This phrase is presented and glossed as if it were proverbial, but it is not in the paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ243Δέονnecessary… 1974) 92 n.64. The remark 'necessary', 'for necessary purposes', became proverbial: see epsiloniota 241. For Perikles see generally delta 451, pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181; for the bare bones of his career see …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1282Διοίσεινto bear through, to differ… pithy sayings from Aristophanes that do not obviously qualify as proverbs. See e.g. delta 1168, epsilon 3234, nu 597. [An allusion to this verse may perhaps be seen in Menander fr. 304 Koerte (in …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… points out that the "runaway lot" was probably a traditional, proverbial trick. [1] Cratinus wrote a comedy of this name (frs. 53-68 PCG vol.4, p.147ff.), probably about the women of Sybaris. The present addendum …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1060Ἐμοὶ μελήσει ταῦτα καὶ λευκαῖς κόραιςI will attend to these matters and (so will) white maidensAn iambic trimeter, also in Appendix Proverbiorum 2.55. Generated by the Gauls' attack on Delphi in 278 BCE. See generally J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley 1978) 344, Q231.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1378Ἐν Καρὸς εἵπετο τάξειhe followed in a Carian's role… 2, 56c Hertlein. Cf. Zenobius 3.59, etc. For Carians in proverbs see also epsilon 1377; for mercenaries see mu 1121, mu 1122.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2440Ἐπὶ Λειψυδρίῳ μάχηa battle at LeipsydrionThe headword phrase, although not described as such here, was proverbial: see Apostolius 7.70, where it is glossed as 'in reference to those involved in a brave struggle'. For the rest of the present …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2903Ἐργαστήριονworkshop[1] No equivalent glossing in other lexica. [3] Polybius 10.20.7. The phrase invoked comes from Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.26 (web address 1 -- itself an echo of Hellenica 3.4.17), and it became quasi-proverbial; besides Polybius, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3013Ἐρρίφθω κύβοςlet the die have been cast… addition in A.) This is the imperative form of the proverb 'the die has been cast' (see alpha 2310, epsilon 695, kappa 2591; cf. kappa 2601, kappa 2602 and notes 5-7), and is used …Matched in noteshighshort

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