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- ν355Νηφάλια ξύλαwine-less timbers, wine-less woods… See also Michael Apostolius 12.9 and other paroemiographers; and cf. Pollux 6.26, and the historians Philochorus and Crates. [2] This addendum (for which cf. nu 357) is lacking in ms AFV; in the margin …
- κ652ΚαταμήληνprobingSimilar entry already in Hesychius (kappa1266, s.v. katamhlw=sa1) and in Pollux 4.181. Photius has the Suda's entry but under the headword katamhlw=n, as translated here; cf. kappa 649. The Suda's headword as transmitted is …
- ε1684Ἐξέχειν τὸν ἥλιονthe sun to shine out… = Aelius Dionysius epsilon43; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1201 Theodoridis; cf. e.g. Pollux 9.123, Hesychius epsilon3821. [1] Not, however, in the standard proverb-collections. [2] Aristophanes fr. 389 Kock (404 K.-A.). [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 771-2 (with 'will …
- δ1560Δοῖδυξpestle… Peace 295 derive the word from a(/las tri/bein "grind salt". Pollux 1.245 mentions the a)letri/banos among implements used by peasants. For 'pestle' doi/duc see Peace 288, 295; a scholion ascribes to Crates of Mallos …
- ε3442Εὐερμίαgood fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes… unattested and probably in error for eu)erme/w, for which see Pollux 5.135. [Theodoridis now prints eu)ermw=.] This abstract noun is derived from the name of Hermes (epsilon 3037, epsilon 3038, epsilon 3034) in his …
- γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… Soli (also known as Soleus), On Riddles (FHG II 31). Pollux 6.19, from the same source, classifies it among "questions over the wine-cups" (zhth/mata kuli/keia) or "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from …
- μ1036ΜίδαςMidas… lucky gambler and a lucky throw of the die. Julius Pollux, however, classifies the throw of this name as either unlucky or average (Onomasticon 7.204-5). The contradiction probably arises from different values for the …