α4076Ἀρχαιότερα τῆς διφθέρας λέγεις
you talk more old-fashioned than the hide
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those saying unsound and outdated things. For the hide is very old, [the one] on which Zeus supposedly wrote what things came into being.
Ἀρχαιότερα τῆς διφθέρας λέγεις· ἐπὶ τῶν σαθρὰ καὶ παλαιὰ λεγόντων. ἡ γὰρ διφθέρα παμπάλαιος, ἐν ᾗ δοκεῖ ὁ Ζεὺς ἀπογράφεσθαι τὰ γενόμενα.