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μ380Μεγάνορος πλούτου[more than] lordly wealthPindar [sc. says this]. ['Lordly' meaning] strong, powerful, giving of manliness; since gold is very powerful. For it is said to be the sinews of war, as Pindar says.Matched in translationhighshort
χ478Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρmoney money (is the) manThis is proverbial, like the sayings of the Seven Sages. Pindar and Alcaeus mention it. Similar to it [are] "the office reveals the man", "steer your own course" and "know thyself". Alcaeus says it …Matched in translationhighshort
λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than Lynkeus… see, through a fir, Kastor treacherously murder his brother, as Pindar says. And Apollonius in Argonautica [writes]: "if the story is indeed true, that that man could easily see even below the earth".Matched in translationhighshort
β583Βοιωτία ὗςBoiotian sow, Boeotian sow… especially Athenians, their neighbours), it is actually first attested in Pindar, Olympian 6.90 (text at web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
γ317Γλυκὺς ἀπείρῳ πόλεμοςsweet (is) war to an inexperienced manFrom the opening of Pindar fr.110 Snell-Maehler (in the form gluku\ de\ po/lemos a)pei/roisin, "a sweet thing [is] war, to the inexperienced"); cf. Diogenianus 3.94 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort
α2252Ἀνέλπιστον βίονhope-free life, hopeless lifeSame entry in other lexica, including Photius whose addendum 'thus Pindar' was rejected by Reizenstein as misplaced. (It is also in Apostolius 2.91.) Perhaps, rather, a philosophical (Stoic?) twist on the word "hopeless", which …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3344Ἔτυχονhit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced… my way by luck (Iliad 11.684, cf. tau 1147). In Pindar tyche becomes a concept of succeeding under the fashioning power of the gods (or a trainer), almost visually of arriving at, or “hitting”, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project… renowned wrestler (the winner at the legendary first Olympic Games, Pindar, Olympians 10.66 and scholia to 79, 80), defeated Hyllus in single combat as the Heraclids first tried to enter the Peloponnese (Herodotus 9.26). …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… every kind of negative, ill-omened events or things (scholion on Pindar, Nemean 10 th\n e)/rin th\n pro\s tou\s krei/ttwnas; scholion [both the vetus and Tzetzes] on Aristophanes, Frogs 1340 tou\s xalepwta/tous tw=n o)nei/rwn; Clement …Matched in noteshighshort