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- ε1630Ἐξ ἑνὸς τὰ πάνθ' ὁρᾶνfrom one thing to see everythingLikewise in Photius. Both the proverb itself and other, more explicit glosses (e.g. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.69) make it clear what sense of the verb parora=n is needed here. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha …
- ε2903Ἐργαστήριονworkshop… invoked comes from Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.26 (web address 1 -- itself an echo of Hellenica 3.4.17), and it became quasi-proverbial; besides Polybius, witness Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.421B [10.18 Kaibel].
- ε1387Ἐν ὅλμῳ ἐκοιμήθη(he) slept in a hollow… Theodoridis; Etymologicum Magnum 344.39-40. First, the verb in the proverb itself is apparently not e)koimh/qh but eu)na/sw, "I will put [you] to bed". Also, the first element of the present gloss should be "Some …
- ε1421Ἐν παντὶ μύθῳ καὶ τὸ Δαιδάλου μύσοςin every myth (there is) also the defilement of Daedalus… and other paroemiographers. (There is wordplay, mythos/mysos, in the proverb itself which gets lost in translation.) For Daedalus (Daidalos) cf. generally delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109, delta 110; for Pasiphae and …
- ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… epsilon 3796 as a proper name). The present entry concerns itself with the specialized religious connotation of "good speech" to mean "ritual silence"; cf. epsilon 3792. [1] Apparently a fragment of Iambic poetry. Ascribed …
- ε2498Ἐπὶ ξυροῦon a razor… au)to/ for au)tou=, yielding the sense "the power [or government] itself was on a razor's edge." Adler does not report this variant in her apparatus.
- ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… to my knowledge, been adequately recognized. The chorus has transformed itself into a Bacchic chorus of Maenads. They lift their legs in their dancing or running step (web address 7, web address 8), and …