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- λ323Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day, brilliant day… the things for a quiver". For Phylarchus says that the Scythians, when they were about to lie down to sleep, brought their quiver, and if they happened to have passed that day unharmed, they …
- α878Ἀκκιζόμενοςacting coyly, being prudish, toying… naturally on to jealousy". And [there is] a proverb: a Scythian toying with the donkey. In reference to those ostensibly nauseated but in fact avid. For someone who had seen a dead donkey said …
- α2862Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίαςtake me away into the quarries… poems, but he, not wishing to praise them, made the statement above.
- α1409Ἁλσὶ διασμηχθεὶς ὄναιτ' ἂν οὑτοσίthis man might be helped if he were rubbed with salt… in salt. It is as if he were making a statement about a wineskin, which become better when rubbed with salt. At the same time we treat madmen with salt and olive oil and …
- δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia… way surprising, since it seems rather linked to the following statement of the meaning: "it means very pleasant, worthy of the Dionysia". Perhaps the words prosdokw=n ― e)/sesqai were copied in a wrong place, …
- ε2255Ἐπὶ βύρσης ἐκαθέζετοhe was sitting on a hideThis used to be performed among Scythians. Whenever someone was wronged by another, but wished to defend himself and thought himself not equal alone in combat, he sacrificed an ox, cut the flesh into …