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8 entries for attention, pause for reflection, observation

αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgraceAdler draws attention to Aeschines 3.241, where Demosthenes is described as 'a fellow who is a disgrace of the city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3781Εὐτυχεῖsucceeds… in its usage 'mark you', "with a proverb or general reflection [...] to point the applicability of a universal truth to the special matter in hand" (J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd. corr. edn., …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… 75-6, with scholion; cf. epsilon 3615. [2] An extra, general observation on the above. It is not from the Sophoclean scholion; rather, from an indeterminable source also quoted in writers later than the Suda …Matched in noteshighmedium
ν405ΝικόστρατοςNikostratos, Nicostratus… Adler reports that mss GM have Otis (Bustard). Bernhardy drew attention to Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15,700B [15.59 Kaibel], which quotes from a play by N. called Patriotai (Fellow-Countrymen). [3] Quoted from epsilon 155.Matched in noteshighshort
ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… on, largely, Luke 16.10-12 (web address 1). Adler's note draws attention to similarities ('cf.') between it and later material: PG 123.968bc, by Theophylact Hephaistos, archbishop of Achrida (Ochrid) from the 1090s onwards. She did …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2134ΚόσσαςKossas, Cossas… be utterly speculative. A further potential complication (brought to my attention by Javier Sanz) arises with the only other attestion of the name Kosas (sic): that of the S. Italian river (a.k.a. Casuentus, present-day …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… li/sphs. [5] I doubt if this is an accurate physiological observation. I have simplified in translation the long sentence, a remarkable example of the diverse ways in which the Greek language expresses reasons: (a) …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria and Sulla in Plutarch, Sulla 35.4. [2] If this is a quotation, it is unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort

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