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χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… who are always catering to the masses." Sophocles [writes]: "'what matter [xrh=ma] do you attend to, Ajax? Why do you set out on this attempt neither summoned by messengers nor hearing any trumpet? In …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… gods; being a sort of secret sources, in which the matters of the gods were to be hidden away. Asclepiades [says] that [the term comes] from Kurbes, who 'defined the [?]natures [of the gods?]', …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… trimeter; for I myself shall not speak about that dreadful matter and word." "No long-haired fop but 's been caprificated."Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2586ΚυβέληKubele, Kybele, Cybele; Kubebe, The Great Mother of the Gods and Men… Cybele was more often known in Rome as Magna Deum Mater (Great Mother of the Gods) and hence today as 'The Great Mother'. Catullus' Attis (poem 63) describes with a certain horror the practice …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies… also outspoken among the Greeks; but the frankness of Thersites mattered less to Agamemnon than flies to a tortoise, as the proverb has it." When a tortoise being carried by an eagle was thrown …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ186Δεκάτην ἑστιάσαιto feast the tenth… night after the birth to call together the paternal and maternal relatives and the closest friends, and when they were present to give the children their names and sacrifice to the gods for good …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1423Δούλων πόλιςslaves' city… [Doulopolis], as Sosicrates [says] in [Book] 1 of his Cretan Matters. There is also, somewhere in Thrace, Scoundrel-city [Poneropolis], which Philip allegedly founded having gathered there those who had been charged with some sort …Matched in translationhighmedium
α905Ἀκμὴ καλεῖa moment is calling… was contemptuous of these things and ignorant of them and materialistic." "At the instant of the evil came some memory of the Samothracians: for that is where the two were initiates." Instead of u(ph=rxon …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ445Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματαseparate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians"[Kreon:] Speaking a lot and speaking appropriately are separate matters. [Oedipus:] You talk as if you are speaking briefly but appropriately." That is, it is one thing to talk nonsense and another to say …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… is ascribed by Erbse to Pausanias the Atticist (epsilon58). Similar material -- especially similar in the account of Telephos -- appears in a scholium to Euripides, Rhesos 251, where Mysians are mentioned. The same …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4599Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξαςhaving let go and having set free… in Hyperides. In reference to those who ignore more important matters and waste time on trivialites. 'Braces' are ropes on a ship by which the yardarm is shifted. And 'to let one's self go …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1173Ἀληθέστερα τῶν ἐπὶ Σάγρᾳtruer things than those at Sagra… Hence the story became a proverb in reference to truthful matters.Matched in translationhighmedium
χ90Χαραδριόςcharadrios, plover… It is a type of bird, changing into the preceding matters. And in reference to the bird the accent is oxytone, but in reference to the ravine [charadra] it is barytone. Since plovers also …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ437Καρύκηsauce… derived terms see already kappa 435, kappa 436. [1] Similar material in a variety of other lexica, grammars and scholia. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 343: web address 1 below. [3] cf. Zenobius 5.3, and the …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ135ΧάρωνCharonApart from the initial gloss, this material is quoted from tau 655, where it draws on the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 185-6. See also chi 140. [1] See chi 610.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3718ΕὐρύβατοςEurybatos, Eurybatus… and admiring his skill, he took hold of the roofing material and threw it back, before they could come around to encircle him, and jumped down through the roof."Matched in translationhighmedium
α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia[1] Same or similar material in Photius and other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 203, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] cf. Hesychius alpha2606. [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists …Matched in noteshighmedium
α732Ἀθηναίων δυσβουλίαAthenians' ill-counsel… 1 below), with scholion; cf. gamma 195. [4] This additional material, inappropriate here, comes from alpha 4536.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3580ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides… 2994. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 39-42, preceded here by material from the scholia to line 42 there. (Philemon = fr. 217 Kock, now 180 Kassel-Austin.) [3] Quoted from alpha 1053.Matched in noteshighmedium
α4458ΑὐρηλιανόςAurelian, Aurelianus, Aurelianos… entry by Christian Körner at web address 1. The Suda's material here is John of Antioch fr. 155 FHG (4.599), now 235 Roberto; cf. Eutropius, Breviarium 9.13. See also alphaiota 291. [1] cf. epsilon …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ118Γέλοιοςlaughable… and esp. (for a more explicit version of the present material) mu 187.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ95ΔαυίδDavid… of laughter for his enemies. And he attended to these matters with repentance and with tears. But David was valiant and courageous like no one else. In his struggles for his subjects he was …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε937Ἔμβαρός εἰμιI am weighty… Photius, Lexicon epsilon692 Theodoridis (with a lavish note). For this material see also beta 122 and pi 1455. [1] So e.g. Strabo 1.3.18. [2] Mounykhos is cross-referenced at mu 1289. [3] The name means …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… note draws attention to similarities ('cf.') between it and later material: PG 123.968bc, by Theophylact Hephaistos, archbishop of Achrida (Ochrid) from the 1090s onwards. She did not identify the Suda's own source, but TLG …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenides… later. See generally OCD(4) s.v.; FGrH 457. For the present material (main paragraph) cf. Diogenes Laertius 1.109-112. [1] Compare Aristeas (alpha 3900). [2] 660-657. [3] On whom see generally OCD(4) s.v. Seven Sages. [4] …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ333Χλαμύςchlamys… a rounded lower side; cf. Tarbell (284). [1] For this material cf. (e.g.) John of Antioch fr.33 FHG (now 61.1 Roberto (128-129)), John Malalas Chronographia II.8 Thurn (24). On Numa see nu 456, nu …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3154Ἐς κόρακαςto the crows… of the Thessalians. (The "fragment" consists of attributions of this material to Aristotle by Eustathius and Photius: see note 1 above.) [4] Compare beta 71 and epsiloniota 285.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia… much of a non sequitur as it looks, some intervening material must be missing. For Naupaktos see generally nu 66.Matched in noteshighmedium