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κ2113ΚόροιβοςKoroibos, Coroebus… proper name. And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves. Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos". Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].Matched in translationhighshort
α4543Αὐχμηρὰ τράπεζαdry table, parched tableThe headword phrase is unidentifiable (Callimachus fr.33 Kapp, but not in Pfeiffer). See also alpha 1825. See generally LSJ s.v. au)xmhro/s for the full range of meanings, literal and figurative, of this adjective. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1481Ἐντὸς ἑβδόμηςbefore (the) seventh… (Photius says the reason for it had been given in Callimachus' Aitia.) For the preposition e)nto/s in this sense see LSJ s.v. [1] sc. day of the month: explicit in Hesychius, Zenobius and Photius. …

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Κόροιβος

Koroibos, Coroebus

A proper name. And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves. Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos". Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows…

Κόροιβος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ μωρός τις, μετρῶν τὰ κύματα. Καλλίμαχος· τὸν ὄγδοον ὥς τι Κόροιβον. ὅτι Βουταλίων καὶ Κόροιβος καὶ Μελιτίδης ἐπὶ μωρίᾳ διεβέβληντο. Ἀριστοφάνης.

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κ888Κατ' αἶγας ἀγρίαςtowards wild goats… 'the sacred' (i.e. epilepsy). Latte ad loc. connects this with Callimachus, Aetia fr. 75. Proverbial in Apostolius 9.61 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort

μ45Μαθώνhaving learned… to be part of his fr.49 FHG, now Roberto.) [3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 257 Pfeiffer. [4] A possible version -- for others see Dunbar's edition ad loc. -- of Aristophanes, Birds 382, where this …Matched in noteshighshort

χ478Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρmoney money (is the) man… give it to Bias. [3] This proverb first appears at Callimachus, Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of Pittacus, overhears boys at play saying this. See also tau 522, where attributions …Matched in noteshighshort