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β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… of musical instrument. "O friend, you who loved the dear barbitos". This is said about Anakreon. [sc. The barbitos features in] a saying in reference to dissimilar things. Aristophanes [writes]: "What [does] the dress …Matched in translationhighshort
χ187Χελιδόνων μουσεῖαswallows' museums… proverbial phrase] in reference to those who do foreign and barbarian things. For the [term] 'swallow' [is] applied to barbarians; for it implies 'Thracian swallow'. And in what follows: "where the swallow squawks around …Matched in translationhighshort
α1384Ἁλώνητονsalt-bought[Meaning] that which is purchased by salt. Equivalent to barbarous. Also [there is] a proverb: 'a salt-bought slave'. In reference to those worthy of no account; inasmuch as merchants conveying salt inland used to …Matched in translationhighshort
κ388Καρικῇ Μούσῃwith a Carian muse… a non-Greek and obscure language; because the Carians speak a barbarian [i.e. non-Greek] language. And [there is] a proverb: 'a Carian story'. [It is said] that a fisherman having seen an octopus during winter, …Matched in translationhighshort
ε1060Ἐμοὶ μελήσει ταῦτα καὶ λευκαῖς κόραιςI will attend to these matters and (so will) white maidensThey say that when certain barbarians attacked Delphi, the god [Apollo] was asked [what needed to be done] and said: 'I will attend to these matters and with white maidens'. Subsequently he appeared with …Matched in translationhighshort
α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… because it was vulgar. But many of the slaves were barbarians and Arabians, about whom a proverb is said: "he plays the pipe for a drachma, but he stops for four." Also "Arabian piper", …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι299Αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦto lift one's foot out of the mud… anyone still gives me something to drink [...] but the barbarian woman has gone and taken the wine away from us along with the table."Matched in translationhighmedium