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- α1414Ἄλλοι κάμον ἄλλοι ὤναντοsome work (but) others are benefitedApostolius 2.29 and other paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.2233.
- α2169Ἀνδριάντα γαργαλίζεινto tickle a statue… ...' by Plutarch, Ekloge peri ton adunaton line 45, and Apostolius 2.84. For tickling cf. gamma 62, gamma 63, gamma 267.
- α2932Ἅπασαν τὴν οὐσίαν ἠμφίασταιhe has put on all his propertyAlso in Photius and elsewhere; and Apostolius 3.44.
- α3428Ἀπὸ λύκου θύραςfrom a wolf's doorLikewise in Apostolius 3.52; similarly in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.95.
- α1459Ἅμμα[Kasiotic] knotApostolius 9.46 and other paroemiographers (with the full version); again at alpha 1510. [1] Egypt.
- α4478Αὐτὴ νῦν ἡ σοφία ζῇnow wisdom herself lives[1] cf. Apostolius 4.29. [2] For the Muses, see generally mu 1291.
- α2204Ἀναίσχυντος καὶ σιδηροῦς ἄνθρωποςshameless and iron(-hearted) fellowSame entry in Photius (and Apostolius 2.79). The headword phrase semi-quotes Aristophanes, Acharnians 491: a)nai/sxuntos w)\n sidhrou/s t' a)nh/r. (See sigma 379 for another angle on it.)
- α4714Ἀχρειόγελως ἄνθρωποςuselessly-laughing fellow… Praeparatio sophistica fr. 294); also in the late paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (4.65). The adjective in the phrase occurs in a fragment of Cratinus (323 Kock, now 360 K.-A.). On what basis LSJ s.v. calls …
- α2252Ἀνέλπιστον βίονhope-free life, hopeless life… was rejected by Reizenstein as misplaced. (It is also in Apostolius 2.91.) Perhaps, rather, a philosophical (Stoic?) twist on the word "hopeless", which in Greek normally had the same unfavourable implications as it does …
- α4098Ἀρχὴν ἰᾶσθαι πολὺ λώϊον ἠὲ τελευτήνfar better to heal a beginning than an endLightly adapted from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.; and cf. Apostolius 3.90. Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.61. Cf. "a stitch in time saves nine."
- α3450Ἀπονέμου τῆς ἁμάξης τῶν δὲ ὄνων οὐδὲν μέλειhelp yourself to the wagon but don't worry about the donkeys… the second part reappears (in a personalised form); thus in Apostolius 17.43.
- α3388Ἀπὸ λεπτοῦ μίτου τὸ ζῆν ἠρτῆσθαιlife has hung by a fragile threadApostolius 3.50; and cf. generally mu 1135. Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.662. The verb in the headword phrase, extracted from the quotation given, is a perfect infinitive. [1] Synesius, Letter 4 (p.162a Hercher), …
- α123Ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδεςskeins of good things… Comica adespota fr. 827 Kock, now 796 K.-A. [4] cf. Apostolius 1.5, etc.
- α4438Αὐλητοῦ βίον ζῇςyou are living a piper's lifeApostolius 4.33, etc. Clearly a particular variety of piper is (disparagingly) envisaged in this proverb; certainly not (e.g.) the kind who, from 586 BCE, won the prestigious solo piping competition at the Pythian Games …
- α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges… again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently personifying language does not guarantee this. See further, …
- α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia… Sophists 1.19; cf. eta 462 and nu 387. [4] cf. Apostolius 15.12; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1906.
- α1409Ἁλσὶ διασμηχθεὶς ὄναιτ' ἂν οὑτοσίthis man might be helped if he were rubbed with salt… is from the longwinded scholia there. (See also the paroemiographer Apostolius (2.34), confirming the idea implicit here that the phrase become proverbial.) Compare the brevity of Dover (below) ad loc.: "Strepsiades pats the creditor's …
- α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… s.v. [2] Besides what follows here, see the paroemiographers (e.g. Apostolius 2.96) and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 (Aristophanes) pp.51-52. [3] On hero-cult see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.672). [4] Anagyros, evidently. (At epsilon 78, where this …