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3196
Ἄπις κρατῶν τις ἀστοχεῖ τῶν ἐλπίδων
a certain Apis though prevailing fails in his hopes
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4576
Ἀφελές
simple
… a)felw=n pedi/wn ["of simple plains"] Aristophanes [writes as follows] about
Crates:
"who having flowed with a lot of praise used to gush across the simple plains, and sweep up from their places and bear …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… lambda691 s. v. *le/rnh qeatw=n (The Lerne of the theaters,
Cratinus
fr. 347 Kock = 392 K.-A.): "paroimi/a ti/s e)stin *argolikh\ *le/rnh kakw=n, h(\n a)podiopompou/menoi e)/legon. ta\ ga\r a)pokaqa/rmata ei)s tou=to to\ xwri/on e)ne/ballon, …
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237
Αἲξ οὐρανία
heavenly goat
… put a question to the vote and elect [sc. officials].
Cratinus
[says that] just as the goat Amaltheia was Zeus' nurse, so too a heavenly goat was [the nurse of] those accepting bribes. But …
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1391
Ἀλώπηξ οὐ δωροδοκεῖται
a fox does not take bribes
… in reference to those not easily won over by bribes.
Cratinus
in Laws [writes]: "each one of you is a fox who takes bribes"
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2819
Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθός
the wage [is] worth taking
… worthy, so that [one should] take it." It is in
Cratinus.
Homer was the first to use this figure: "for you shall be easier to slay, with that man dead." And elsewhere: "it is …
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1213
Διὸς ψῆφος
Zeus's tribunal, Zeus's vote
… it is called, in which Athena and Poseidon were judged.
Cratinus
in Archilochoi [writes]: "where they are called chairs and game-boards of great Zeus." For the place, in which they were judged, is called …
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1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… is] "in Drapetides" ["Runaway Women"] in the feminine form in
Cratinus.
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2131
Ἐπειοῦ δειλότερος
more cowardly than Epeios
So said
Cratinus
the writer of comedy, perhaps because [this man] had served as taxiarch of the Oineid tribe and had shown himself as rather cowardly. For Epeios was certainly a coward.
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328
Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
… guarantee this. See further, next note. [3] Used in Plato,
Cratylus
421D (where a scholiast cited Aristophanes fr. 321 Kock as an earlier attestation of it) and Laws 751D. Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. …
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1303
Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷ
there is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him
… for a bitter character (Les Images d'Aristophane, 1965, 197-98). When
Cratinus
(fr. 6 Kock and Kassel-Austin) calls Archilochus "the marinade of Thasos", who 'bow wows' (bau/zei, of the snarling or barking of an angry …
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2952
Ἀπ' αἰγείρου θέα καὶ ἐπ' αἴγειρον
view from the poplar and (view) at the poplar
… 35). The headword phrase itself goes back to C5-BCE Athens:
Cratinus
fr. 339 Kock, now 372 K.-A.
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4714
Ἀχρειόγελως ἄνθρωπος
uselessly-laughing fellow
… The adjective in the phrase occurs in a fragment of
Cratinus
(323 Kock, now 360 K.-A.). On what basis LSJ s.v. calls it an epithet of the Athenians is unclear.
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417
Βοῦθος περιφοιτᾷ
Bouthos is wandering around
[1]
Cratinus
fr. 245 Kock, now 262 K.-A.; Zenobius 2.66 and other paroemiographers. Other lexica assert that this Bouthos was an athlete. [2] cf. upsilon 100.
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459
Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃ
you are an ox sitting in a courtyard
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fr. 32 Kock, now 34 K.-A. Same or similar entry in Hesychius and some of the paroemiographers. (The modern equivalent might be: a square peg in a round hole.) cf. beta 458 …
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1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… 'pestle' doi/duc see Peace 288, 295; a scholion ascribes to
Crates
of Mallos the notion that this was an Attic word, and a)letri/banos an Asian one. The scholia refer to proverbial expressions: scholia to …
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11
Ἔαρος χρῄζει
is in want of spring
… swallow does not make a spring" (we would say "summer"),
Cratinus
fr. 33 Kock, now 35 K.-A., is quoted by Aristotle at Nicomachean Ethics 1098a16 (web address 2); cf. mu 1030, and see generally …
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16
Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά
excellent things are difficult
… 6.38 and other paroemiographers; scholia on Plato, Greater Hippias 304E,
Cratylus
384A. See also pi 1658. [1] Pittakos: pi 1659. [2] Solon: sigma 776, sigma 777. (Here referring to his own weakness, presumably.) [3] …
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