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1379
Ἓν κηρίον
a single honeycomb
Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.62. For honeycombs see also mu 503.
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1717
Ἐξηκεστίδης
Exekestides
… of this play (414 BCE), see Dunbar 137-8. For the
proverb
implied by the last sentence here see (e.g.) Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.70.
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165
Ἱερείας ἐνύπνιον
priestess's dream
… Photius iota49 Theodoridis), and cf. the headword phrase as a
proverb:
Appendix
proverbiorum
3.25. Ultimately a fragment of tau 602, the Sicilian historian Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566 F29) preserved in the scholia to …
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1073
Ἀλλ' ἅπαν γένοιτ' ἂν ἤδη
but now anything might happen
… address 1 below), with scholion. For variants on this alleged
proverb,
attributed to the mid-C5 poetess Praxilla of Sikyon by the scholiast, see the drinking-song quoted by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695D = 15.50 #20 Kaibel …
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3903
Ἀριστείδης
Aristides, Aristeides
… requires it to be construed differently, as a species of
proverb:
"worthy of Miltiades and Aristeides".
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4669
Ἀχαΐα
Akhaia, Achaia, Achaea
… This phrase is presented and glossed as if it were
proverbial,
but it is not in the paroemiographers.
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359
Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτία
the citizen's error (is) the city's disgrace
… city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as
proverbial
in the C15 paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (1.70); note also the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 929: the phrase su\ d' a)ci/an ou)k …
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243
Δέον
necessary
… 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 …
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ε
1384
Ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφος κρατήσω
in a branch of myrtle I will master my sword
… BCE; but here, as also in Apostolius 7.26 and Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.64, the main verb is changed from forh/sw ('I will carry') to krath/sw ('I will master'). Here as elsewhere in Aristophanes (etc.) 'sword' …
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2440
Ἐπὶ Λειψυδρίῳ μάχη
a battle at Leipsydrion
The 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 …
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200
Ἱερώνυμος
Hieronymos, Hieronymus
… passages in F.W. Walbank, Commentary on Polybius ii.40. Both were
proverbial
for their cruelty. [2] Polybius 7.1.3 says, more intelligibly, "thirteen months". [3] "Good" Sicilian tyrants (of the early C5 BCE).
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