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δ1233Διωλύγιονenormous… an enormous nonsense ... you fling:" Plato [says this]. And Damascius [writes]: "would this not seem to be an enormous nonsense, and justly not [merely] idle talk like that of old women, but exceeding …Matched in translationhighshort
α1790Ἄμφωboth… Again at alpha 1792 (and theta 78). (This 'saying', from Damascius, is not in the paroemiographers.)Matched in noteshighshort
α1792Ἀμφοῖνwith both[1] Damascius Life of Isidore fr.257 Zintzen (283 Asmus) (cf. theta 78). See already alpha 1790, and cf. also alpha 1793.Matched in noteshigh

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Διωλύγιον

enormous

[Meaning something] big. And [there is] a proverb: *diwlu/gion kako/n ["enormous evil"], referring to those who undertake something big and terrible. For diwlu/gion is something big and extending far. "Thus an enormous…

Διωλύγιον· μέγα. καὶ παροιμία· Διωλύγιον κακόν, ἐπὶ τῶν μέγα τι καὶ δεινὸν ὑφισταμένων. διωλύγιον γάρ ἐστι τὸ μέγα καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ διῆκον. οὕτως δνοπαλίζεις διωλύγιος φλυαρία.…

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α4218Ἀστάθμητονuncertain… (web address 1). [3] Quotation unidentifiable, but Adler (apparatus) suggested Damascius, and now Life of Isidore fr. 375 Zintzen. [4] Quotation unidentifiable. [5] The passage quoted is Homer, Iliad 4.164 (web address 2). The …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… late antiquity. Only citations of significance are noted here. [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 125 Zintzen (75 Asmus. See generally Athanassiadi for text and commentary). The "she" in question is the 5th century …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1461ΔώριοςDorian… address 1); see also lambda 786 and phi 753. [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 98 Zintzen (50 Asmus), now 42D Athanassiadi; cf. alpha 764. Athanassiadi adopts Augusto Guida's emendation yuxh=s ("of the soul") …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ445Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματαseparate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians… 808-10 (web address 1), interspersed with the scholia thereto. [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 213 Zintzen (132 Asmus); see also omicron 795 and Photius, Bibliotheca 345a27.Matched in noteshighmedium