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- ε1379Ἓν κηρίονa single honeycomb[sc. A proverbial phrase] applied to those who are voicing the same views, or [fellow-]agitators, or [fellow-]conspirators.
- δ212Δελφῖνα νήχεσθαι διδάσκειςyou are teaching a dolphin to swim.… tail"; in reference to to the impossible; because of the agility and slipperiness [of dolphins].
- ι500Ἰωρόςioros… the proverb was applied to people making threats and being agitated.
- ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenidesSon of Phaistos or Dosiadas or Agiasarchos and, as his mother, Blasta; a Cretan from Knossos; an epic poet. Of him there is a story that his soul could leave his body on any …
- μ380Μεγάνορος πλούτου[more than] lordly wealth… Pindar scholia to Olympian 1.4b, Appian (Civil War 4.12.99), Plutarch (Agis and Cleomenes 48.1.1), and nu 266, which quotes George of Pisidia (the seventh-century AD Byzantine poet), Heraclias 1.163-4. George's lines contain the phrase …
- δ1560Δοῖδυξpestle… are implements used to crush and mix things, to create agitation. (For this see also Peace 259-284, where Kleon and Brasidas are the "pestles" used by the demon War to destroy Greece.) Aristophanes, however, …