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ε3691Εὐριπίδειον ἔποςEuripidean word[Meaning one] of Euripides. And "[a] Euripidean speech" [is a phrase used] likewise. Euripides said, "a physician of others, himself full of wounds." And elsewhere: "for male children are pillars of households."Matched in translationhighshort
δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… kai\ a)reth/n, feu=ge yo/gon "pursue glory and excellence, flee blame"; Euripides, Ion 439-440 su/ [...] e)pei\ kratei=s a)reta\s di/wke (web address 3). Bernhardy's suggested correction of the entry to a)reta\s di/wke, rests on this …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… suppose you have heard [this], o son of Ariston." And Euripides [writes]: "for good speech is best at libations."

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Εὐριπίδειον ἔπος

Euripidean word

[Meaning one] of Euripides. And "[a] Euripidean speech" [is a phrase used] likewise. Euripides said, "a physician of others, himself full of wounds." And elsewhere: "for male children are pillars of households."

Εὐριπίδειον ἔπος· τοῦ Εὐριπίδου. καὶ Εὐριπίδειος λόγος ὁμοίως. ὅτι ἔφη Εὐριπίδης, ἄλλων ἰατρὸς αὐτὸς ἕλκεσι βρύων. καὶ αὖθις· στῦλοι γὰρ οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες.

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δ400Δηλίου κολυμβητοῦDelian diver… diver", in reference to those who swim deep. For when Euripides gave Socrates a book by Heraclitus the Obscure, [Euripides] asked, "How does it seem?" and [Socrates] said, "What I have understood [is] excellent, …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… and the metamorphoses of the three into birds (used in Euripides' Helen in 414 BC to evoke the fate of Athens's sons in Syracuse). Procne's reply is introduced by the pipe of a well-known …Matched in noteshighlong

α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… [treatise] On Tragic Poets, comparing the Phoenix [Author, Myth] of Euripides to them.Matched in translationhighmedium

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… gods; but popana ["round-cakes"] [are different again]; and in Erechtheus Euripides called moon-cakes pelanoi: "and tell me, for you are sending from home a great pelanos, of these moon-cakes of a first fiery sprouting." …Matched in translationhighmedium

β458Βοῦς ἕβδομοςseventh ox… they also used to call thus. It is [mentioned] in Euripides in Erechtheus and in Achaeus in Iris. The proverb is applied to those who are excessively unfeeling. Also [sc. attested is the proverbial …Matched in translationhighmedium

η459Ἡρακλεία λίθοςHerakleian stone, Heraclean stone… is Heraclean, but the Magnesian [stone] is like silver. Thus Euripides in Oineus [writes]: "searching out the minds of men, as the Magnesian stone draws the opinion and changes it back." He is saying …Matched in translationhighmedium

χ9Χαλάσω τὴν ἱερὰν ἄγκυρανI will loose the holy anchor… figuratively from ships, [meaning] safety. So Sophocles in Phaedra and Euripides in Hecuba [also use it]. [It is called] holy [meaning that it is] a large [anchor or] a good one. Diodorus [writes]: "with …Matched in translationhighshort

χ187Χελιδόνων μουσεῖαswallows' museums… what follows: "where the swallow squawks around Thracian lands." And Euripides [writes]: "a mass of ivy was creeping up, a well-grown shoot, a swallows' museum."Matched in translationhighshort

α3756Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύεινpainful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senselessA saying of Euripides in Bacchae. Also [sc. attested is] a)rgale/on ["painful"], [meaning] difficult. It is said from a)/lgos ["pain"], a)lgale/on with a change of lambda into rho. Something difficult was called "work" [e)/rgon] …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε3394ΕὐγένιοςEugenios, Eugenius… He wrote a colometry of lyrics by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from 15 plays; On what the paeonic palimbaccheus is; On the formation of names for temples (e.g. Dionyseum, Asclepium); Assorted Lexicon (alphabetically arranged: …Matched in translationhighmedium

α905Ἀκμὴ καλεῖa moment is calling… sight of in the entry which follows. It comes from Euripides, Hecuba 1042. [2] Aelian fr. 44b Domingo-Forasté, 41 Hercher (on the invalid Nikanor). [3] Aelian fr. 93e D-F (90 Hercher). For the Samothracian …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia… in Photius and other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 203, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] cf. Hesychius alpha2606. [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.19; cf. eta 462 and …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2190Ἀνδρὸς γέροντος ἀσταφὶς τὸ κρανίονan old man's head is a dried grape… [2] Diogenianus 1.78 & 86. [3] Zenobius 1.90. This proverb (Euripides fr.799a Snell) recurs at epsilon 586, omicroniota 72, and upsilon 300. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.438.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2596Ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι πηγαίstreams are flowing up rivers… the instance in Demosthenes 19.287. An earlier one still is Euripides, Medea 410. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1890.Matched in noteshighshort

α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… "Sophocles" is a mistake (also in the Synagoge); this is Euripides, Medea 319-320. See web address 3. [5] Zenobius 2.4. Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 228. [6] Aristophanes, Frogs 614 (web address 4). Later proverbial: …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4525Αὐτός τι νῦν δρῶν εἶτα τοὺς θεοὺς κάλειdo something now (and) then call upon the gods… present headword phrase, an iambic trimeter, is a version of Euripides fr. 432 Nauck (which has dai/monas, not the Suda's tou\s qeou/s). Cf. "God helps those who help themselves." Tosi (cited under alpha 378) …Matched in noteshighshort

β55Βακχεία ποιμαντικήBacchic herdsmanship… followers, with their habit of tearing animals to pieces (cf. Euripides' Bacchae), may not be the people to have loose among your sheep. A trace of this idea may be found in the 10th-century …Matched in noteshighshort

β75Βάλλ' ἐς Μακαρίανbe gone into blessedness… beta 74. The present gloss refers to the myth which Euripides relates in the Heracleidae; for Macaria see again under mu 51. Similar material, variously, in other lexica and scholia. [1] Two dialect variants, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1282Διοίσεινto bear through, to differ… that the meaning of dioi/sein is "open" (perhaps connected to Euripides, Bacchae 64, where diafe/rw is used as an equivalent of "tear asunder"); but the sense of jar being "new" (kaino\n) is quite unclear. …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kings… derivative) of the sentiment is also spoken by Medea in Euripides, Medea 964. See also in Latin literature Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.653-4 (Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque: / Placatur donis Iuppiter ipse datis) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… the account of Telephos -- appears in a scholium to Euripides, Rhesos 251, where Mysians are mentioned. The same scholium presents an extended version of the first explanation given here and ascribes it to …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ465Χρείαservice… (web address 1), on Scipio. See further below, n.4. [3] Euripides fr.715; Arsenius 18.41e. [4] The transmitted *karxhdo/nion is opaque as it stands. Adler's apparatus notes A. Meineke's proposed emendation to *karxhdoni/w|, i.e. in …Matched in noteshighshort