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- γ230Γῇ θάλατταν συναναμίγνυσινthey mix up the sea with the earthThe proverb [is used] in reference to those who are excessively angered.
- α3402Ἀπόλογος ἈλκίνουAlkino(o)s' story, Alkino(o)s' tale[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who talk nonsense and stretch a tale out at length.
- δ795Διὰ τοῦ τοίχου λαλεῖνto talk through the wall[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those doing something senselessly.
- αι41Αἰγιαλῷ λαλεῖςyou are talking to a beach[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to the inaudible. Also 'you are conversing with a wind." Likewise in reference to the inaudible.
- ν578Νυκτερίδος αἶνοςbat's tale[Meaning one which] shows [something] riddlingly about a bat. It is set out in the [entries] after these.
- α4076Ἀρχαιότερα τῆς διφθέρας λέγειςyou talk more old-fashioned than the hide[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those saying unsound and outdated things. For the hide is very old, [the one] on which Zeus supposedly wrote what things came into being.
- α2263Ἀνέμῳ διαλέγῃyou are talking to a wind[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who are not heard. [Another] proverb [is]: "directions of winds"; "for locals know best not only the directions of the winds, according to the proverb, but …
- αι230Αἶνοςtale, story… Or [intended as] praise, and encomium. There is a certain tale: how a man and not a man killed me, a bird and not a bird, but just the same a bird, while sitting …
- α425ἈδάμAdam… Hatcher of Heresy invented and carved out. Hence the wretched tales of the Egyptians about Osiris and Typhon and Isis, and the chicanery of the Persian Magi, and the gymnosophistry and impertinent fantasies of …
- χ445Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματαseparate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians… a lot and speaking appropriately are separate matters. [Oedipus:] You talk as if you are speaking briefly but appropriately." That is, it is one thing to talk nonsense and another to say things that …
- ει319Ἐς τὸ δέονfor the necessary… not pillage the territory [of Attica], charged the expense, fifteen talents, to the Athenians, writing it off with something like "for the necessary". Aristophanes in Clouds [says]: "just like Perikles I spent it 'for …
- ει78Εἰκῆ ῥαψῳδεῖsings at randomMeaning he/she/it talks nonsense. "He pretends madness, and says one thing after another randomly and by chance, and no second [word] agreeing with the preceding."
- δ243Δέονnecessary… his accounts he said simply that he had spent 50 talents 'on the necessary'. Learning [this] afterwards, the Lacedaemonians confiscated Kleandrides[' property] and fined [sc. King] Pleistoanax 5 talents, suspecting that they had taken …
- ε2995Ἐριννύων ἀπορρώξFuries' limb, Furies' off-shoot… ugly. "Did a Fury not forge this sword?" He is talking about Ajax. Also, search for the Furies under "Eumenides."
- αι76Αἰγυπτία κληματίςEgyptian vine-branch.[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to lean and fairly tall men; such a man was Zeno of Citium. It is said that he consulted the oracle to learn how he might live the …
- ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… question Iris the Rainbow on her arrival on stage, he talks like the birds. The text of the entry follows the Canon for the accentuation of monosyllabic adverbs poi= poi=, but the repeated sound …
- ει67Εἰ καὶ λύκου ἐμνήσθηςif you even mentioned a wolf… Apostolius 6.50, etc.; and cf. Latin lupus in fabula; English 'talk of the devil'. Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1304.
- δ1233Διωλύγιονenormous… to be an enormous nonsense, and justly not [merely] idle talk like that of old women, but exceeding the greatest babble?"
- α4103ἈρχίαςArchias… man, because he thought he was about to receive 500 talents, discarded both the possessions he already had and his life."
- α1470Ἀμάθητοςignorant, simple… "speak in a simpler and clearer way". From the proverb, "talk to me more clearly and more simply."
- δ1516ΔραχμήdrachmaSee under "talent." 100 drachmas make one m(i)na. A drachma [is] a weight of currency equal to 10 drachmas of silver. A drachma [is] six obols. And Aristophanes [writes]: "spend three drachmas for me …
- α3459Ἀπ' ὄνου καταπεσώνhaving fallen from a donkey… handle donkeys. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "why, pray, are you talking nonsense, as if you had fallen from a donkey?" But the philosopher Plato says the proverb with "the mind" taking the place of …
- κ1346Κενοὶ κενὰ λογίζονταιempty men think empty thoughts… man, because he thought he was about to receive 500 talents, discarded even the possessions he already had. And again Aristophanes [writes]: "running in to the town hall with his belly empty, he came …
- κ1610ΚιλλικώνKillikon… bad, but [only] robbing temples'. For Killikon had been much talked of for wickedness, he who betrayed Miletos to the Prienians. When certain people often asked him what he was going to do, he …
- γ112Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέραmore overfond of children than Gellocf. Zenobius 3.3, attributing the tale to Lesbos, and specifically to Sappho; hence the headword phrase itself is regarded as a fragment of Sappho (178 Lobel-Page). Hesychius has two consecutive 'Gello' entries (gamma307-308) of …
- δ536Διὰ δακτυλίου δεῖ σε ἑλκυσθῆναιyou must have been dragged through a ring… was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring".
- α493Ἀδμήτου μέλος καὶ ἉρμοδίουAdmetos' song and Harmodios'… in turn by guests at a banquet, when their poetical talents might be affected by drink. Harmodios was a regular subject of these songs: see alpha 3975. For Admetos see alpha 492.
- α4716Ἄχρησταuseless (things), unprofitable (things)… for an old man, nor a malignant slave/boy, nor a talkative woman, nor a stupid slave/boy or a neighbor's dog, nor a chattering rower. See other [such injunctions] under Pythagoras. "Not to dart into …
- χ362Χοᾶchous; pitcher… '[it] will hold six choas.' In reference to those who talk nonsense. That is, his brain [will hold six choas]. At the same time it remained as a metaphor for a jar or wineskin: …
- α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… silver is with the goddess on the Acropolis." For 1,000 talents were stored on the Acropolis. "Abyss" is what the Holy Scripture calls the watery substance. So since the land is surrounded on all …