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413 entries for
a hare desires meat
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87
Δασύπους κρεῶν ἐπιθυμεῖ
a hare desires meat
cf. Diogenianus 4.12. For
hares
and
proverbs cf. delta 86.
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α
3824
Ἀρεοπαγίτης
Areopagite
[1] That is,
Areio-
as
well
as
this
Areo-.
(Either way, it meant
a
member of the
Are(i)opagos
Council/Court in
Athens.
See
alpha
3838.) [2] Macarius 2.30. [3] Macarius 2.31. [4] Plato Comicus fr. …
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β
329
Βλέπειν γὰρ ἄντικρυς δόξεις μ' Ἄρη
for you will think that I look a downright Ares
The headword phrase quotes
Aristophanes,
Plutus [Wealth] 328 (web
address
1 below),
and
the gloss draws on the scholia there --
Ares
standing for martial prowess. The form of the gloss implies that the …
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48
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28
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20
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17
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16
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15
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14
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14
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12
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12
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11
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11
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9
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9
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8
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8
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3
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9
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2
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γ
493
Γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττεις
you are assigning guard-duty to a naked man
[1] Hesychius gamma1004
assigns
the phrase to the comic poet Pherecrates (fr. 144 Kock, now 154 K.-A.) in the first instance; cf. Zenobius 2.98. [2] Quotation unidentifiable; found
also
in
a
syntactical lexicon. [3] …
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α
4438
Αὐλητοῦ βίον ζῇς
you are living a piper's life
Apostolius
4.33, etc. Clearly
a
particular variety of piper is (disparagingly) envisaged in this proverb; certainly not (e.g.) the kind who, from 586 BCE, won the prestigious solo piping competition
at
the Pythian Games …
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ε
2396
Ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκεις
you are dragging [me] on a carding-comb
cf. Hesychius s.v.;
Appendix
Proverbiorum 2.81. The ultimate source, mentioned there but not here (but cf. kappa 1854), is the episode in Herodotus 1.92.4 (cf. Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus 858E) of Croesus …
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ι
527
Ἱππέας εἰς πεδίον προκαλῇ
you are calling the cavalrymen onto a plain
More fully in Photius, Lexicon iota163 Theodoridis (where
a
source is cited: Plato, Theaetetus 183D);
and
proverbial in
Apostolius
9.13, etc. For the general idea see
again
iota 574.
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β
459
Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃ
you are an ox sitting in a courtyard
… 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 (end).
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κ
31
Κάθαμμα λύεις
you are undoing a knot
cf. Zenobius 4.46,
and
more generally Tosi (cited under
alpha
378) no.1115. The famous Gordian knot
(at
Gordion in Phrygia). In 333 BCE
Alexander
the Great 'visited the
ancient
palace of the Phrygian kings …
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γ
434
Γραφή τε καὶ Λευκαῖος οὐ ταὐτόν
a painting and Leukaios (are) not the same thing
Comica
Adespota
fr. 279 Kock (but not in K.-A.); cf.
Appendix
Proverbiorum 1.83. (Entry out of
alphabetical
order.)
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δ
1227
Δίωκε ἀρετήν
pursue excellence
Same entry (but without 'excellence') in Hesychius delta2041
and
elsewhere;
and
cf. under delta 1229. For
arete
generally see
alpha
3830,
alpha
3831.
As
Latte on Hesychius suggests, the lemma might be related to …
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α
4177
Ἀσκὸς ἐν πάχνῃ
a wineskin in a frost
… on it (PG 80, 1848bc). [2] 1 Corinthians 9.27. [3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians
1000-2 (web
address
1). What follows here derives from scholiastic comment on the line. [4] The Khoes, the second day of the …
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ε
3971
Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινον
they escaped a bad thing [and] found a better
The entry explains
a
proverb that was
apparently
spoken
at
Athenian
weddings (though not only there: see n.1 below). It is debatable how
ancient
the custom was. Nilsson ('Wedding Rites' 248-9)
argues
that it …
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α
4306
Ἀτταγᾶς νουμηνίῳ
a partridge (joins) a woodcock
The headword phrase is
attested
in two syntactical forms: either,
as
here, the second noun is in the dative (with
a
singular verb either implicit,
as
here, or explicit) or else both
are
nominative …
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χ
477
υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλός
money money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble
The first part of the headword phrase --
again
at
chi 478 --
appears
in Pindar, Isthmians 2.17 (web
address
1), but the whole phrase is
a
version of
Alcaeus
fr. 360 Lobel-Page, of …
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α
1355
Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἔνεστι συκοφάντου δήγματος
but it does not have [a charm] against an informer's bite
This is
a
curious --
and
possibly corrupt -- phrase found in
Aristophanes,
Plutus [Wealth] 885 (web
address
1 below). The explanations offered here
are
taken from scholia there.
Again
(with slight variations)
at
…
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ε
4028
Ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα κοὐκ ὀνήσιμα
enemies' charities are uncharitable and not helpful
[1]
A
verbatim quotation of Sophocles,
Ajax
654-70, part of
Ajax's
famous Trugrede (Deception Speech) delivered before his suicide (web
address
1); cf.
alpha
519,
alpha
1144, epsiloniota 152, epsiloniota 296, mu 1234, nu …
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α
4479
Αὐτίκα
forthwith, in a moment
Same material, variously, in other lexica
and
scholia. See generally LSJ s.v.
au)ti/ka.
The present entry seeks to establish
a
temporal distinction (hard to sustain in English translation) between the simple
adverb
and
its …
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α
3459
Ἀπ' ὄνου καταπεσών
having fallen from a donkey
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1273 (web
address
1 below), with scholion; cf. lambda 467. See
also
Zenobius 2.57
and
other paroemiographers;
and
tau 1158. [2] Plato, Laws 701C (web
address
2). The manuscript tradition of …
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ε
499
Ἐκ Μασσαλίας ἥκεις
you are coming out of Massalia
For
a
variant on this see epsilon 3161. (The present entry's version occurs only here.) For Massalia, present-day Marseilles, see mu 242.
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χ
610
Χύτραν ποικίλλειν
to decorate a cooking-pot
For this proverbial expression -- once regarded
as
a
fragment of comedy (Comica
adespota
921 Kock), but not in K.-A. -- see
already
under omicron 399
(and
chi 135). Its point is that
a
…
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ε
1877
Ἑορτὴ πολλὰ ἔχουσα
a festival having many things
cf.
Appendix
Proverbiorum 2.76-77, where two similar proverbs
(and
their glosses, here combined)
are
differentiated:
'a
festival having many things'
and
'a
festival having feet (po/das)'.
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κ
497
Καταγηρᾶσαι Τιθωνοῦ βαθύτερον καὶ τοῦ Κινύρου πλουσιώτερον καὶ Σαρδαναπάλου τρυφερώτερον ὅπως τὸ τῆς παροιμίας ἐπὶ σοὶ πληρωθῇ δὶς παῖδες οἱ γέροντες
to grow old deeper than Tithonus and richer than Kinyras and daintier than Sardanapalus so that in your case the proverb would be fulfilled: the old are children again
The long headword phrase comes from
a
Letter of the emperor Julian (no.82 Bidez-Cumont); cf.
Appendix
Proverbiorum 4.68. For 'the old
are
children
again'
see under delta 1267; for Kinyras, kappa 1651; for Sardanapalus, …
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δ
352
Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς Αἰγύπτιοι
Egyptians (are) clever at crafting machines
[1] Zenobius 3.37. The headword phrase itself is
Aeschylus
fr. 373 Nauck (726 Mette). [2] Homer, Iliad 2.742, 15.626. The
added
comment comes from the scholia to the first of these passages. (The fame …
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β
295
Βίος ἀκανθώδης
a thorny life
[1] The headword phrase sounds proverbial, like the others
assembled
for this entry, but it does not feature in the paroemiographers,
and
is indeed not otherwise
attested.
[2] For this
and
"a
ready-kneaded life" …
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ε
1154
Ἐν δὲ διχοστασίῃ καὶ Ἀνδροκλέης πολεμαρχεῖ
at a time of division even Androkles is polemarch
Likewise in Photius. Comica
adespota
frs. 51-2 Kock (951 K.-A.); cf. Zenobius 3.77, etc. [1] See
already
epsilon 1147. [2] See
already
epsilon 1112.
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η
85
Ἢ δεῖ χελώνης κρέα φαγεῖν ἢ μὴ φαγεῖν
whether one should eat a tortoise's flesh or not eat it
Also
in Photius, Lexicon eta42 (see further below, n.2); cross-referenced, summarily,
at
kappa 2364,
and
see
also
chi 192. Besides the paroemiographers (Zenobius 4.19, etc.) see
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 8.337B [8.17 Kaibel], with two versions …
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α
3388
Ἀπὸ λεπτοῦ μίτου τὸ ζῆν ἠρτῆσθαι
life has hung by a fragile thread
Apostolius
3.50;
and
cf. generally mu 1135. Tosi (cited under
alpha
378) no.662. The verb in the headword phrase, extracted from the quotation given, is
a
perfect infinitive. [1] Synesius, Letter 4 (p.162a Hercher), …
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ε
2053
Ἐπενεγκεῖν δόρυ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκφορᾷ καὶ προαγορεύειν ἐπὶ τῷ μνήματι
to carry a spear at the funeral and to make an announcement at the memorial
[1] Istros FGrH 334 F14.
As
Harpokration s.v. (from which the present entry derives) shows, Istros was "speaking
about
Prokris
and
Kephalos". Prokris (pi 2488),
a
daughter of Erechtheus, was
accidentally
killed, during
a
…
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α
2169
Ἀνδριάντα γαργαλίζειν
to tickle a statue
Registered in the form 'you
are
tickling ...' by Plutarch, Ekloge peri ton
adunaton
line 45,
and
Apostolius
2.84. For tickling cf. gamma 62, gamma 63, gamma 267.
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