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α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… Comica adespota fr. 268 Kock, now 920 K.-A. The word "four" is textually corrupt here but guaranteed by other citations; cf. delta 1516 (end), tau 217. [3] Cantharus fr. 1 Kock (and K.-A.). [4] …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2290Κῷος πρὸς ΧῖονCoös against Chios, Coan against Chian… Chios meant not a single ace but the throw of four aces and Coös the throw of four sixes. This would give a better sense to the proverb "Chios, standing beside, does not allow …Matched in noteshighshort
ει284Εἰς κόπρον θυμιᾷςyou are burning incense for shit… 2.22 (with a slightly different gloss) See omicron 399, where four other ways of expressing the same thing are listed.Matched in noteshighshort
κ41Καθ' αὑτοῦ ΒελλεροφόντηςBellerophon against himself… Bellerophon, see beta 231, iota 400, sigma 515. [2] The four terms are arranged (in most of the manuscripts) in a square diagram with diagonal lines connecting the corners. The preposition dia/ (with accusative) …Matched in noteshighlong
κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… see alpha 2833. [7] Here, for the second time in four lines, the noun ou)si/as is transmitted, but (as Adler notes, following Kuster) by a change of a single letter it can become qusi/as …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3248Ἔσχατα ἐσχάτων κακὰ διαπέπρακταιevils ultimate of ultimates have been perpetratedApostolius 7.99, etc.; see further, n. 1 below. For 'ultimate evils', e)/sxata kaka/, cf. epsilon 3249. In the present context, however, the proverbial heart of the headword phrase is e)/sxata e)sxa/twn kaka/, 'evils ultimate …Matched in noteshighshort
α4660Ἀφύα ἐς πῦρanchovy into fire… Scholium on Aristophanes, Birds 76. [4] On this phrase see further below. [5] More exactly, 'Phalereus' is the demotikon of the harbour (and deme) Phaleron. See phi 46, and cf. phi 49. [6] A …Matched in noteshighmedium
β175Βάτα ΚάραςBata Karas, Batakaras… votive offering in the temple of Hera on Samos. All four sources allude to a controversy over whether the saying consists of one word or two, with the latter view prevailing. (The Appendix Proverbiorum …Matched in noteshighshort
αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgrace… fellow who is a disgrace of the city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (1.70); note also the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus …Matched in noteshighshort
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… However, they contend that it is incoherent there as a fourth couplet to 7.23 and endorse Joseph Justus Scaliger's (1540-1609) argument that these lines belong as the opening of another epigram otherwise lost (ibid.). …Matched in noteshighshort
α946ἈκκώAkko, Acco… other paroemiographers. [1] cf. alpha 878 (where in fact the principal idea is the pretence, rather than the reality, of stupidity etc.; see also LSJ s.v.). [2] cf. sigma 953. Since pa/ttalos ('peg') is …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1900Κόγχηνcockle, musselThe principal paragraph of this entry is also in Photius (Lexicon kappa835 Theodoridis). The headword is the accusative case of kappa 1899, q.v.; it is perhaps extracted from the proverb quoted (see below), but …Matched in noteshighshort
ε586Ἐκποδώνout of the way… Aelius Aristides, In reply to Plato on behalf of the four [sc. leading statesmen of fifth-century Athens] 181 Jebb. Discussing there the Greeks' response to the early stages of Xerxes' invasion, the rhetor uses …Matched in noteshighshort
α1173Ἀληθέστερα τῶν ἐπὶ Σάγρᾳtruer things than those at SagraThe principal paragraph here is also in Photius, Lexicon alpha936 Theodoridis, with looser parallels elsewhere (including several of the paroemiographers). [1] Menander fr. 34 Kock, 31 Koerte, now 32 K.-A. [2] The qualifier makes …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… with sarcasm, urbane witticism and antiphrasis, as one of its four types), but classes enigma, from its obscurity, as a stylistic flaw (and, a fortiori, griphos, which he does not mention). See the references …Matched in noteshighshort
α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… sense "brood over." [3] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 4.44. These are principal parts of the verb bu/w, which means "to stuff," followed by buso/s, which does not exist according to LSJ. Probably this is a …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… in one musical sequence, and line 242 combines the third, fourth and fifth phrases into a single sequence (as the writer of the article probably intended). The rising crescendo at the end of each …Matched in noteshighlong
δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia… h)\ te/ttaras; ("how many Choes [has she seen]? Three, or four?"). The words refer to the custom of describing a child’s age according to the number of annual festivals celebrated during its life (here …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1934Ἐπακτὸς ὅρκοςimposed oath… entry in Hesychius epsilon4121; and see also Zenobius 3.80. See further the next entry, epsilon 1935.Matched in noteshighshort
δ91ΔατόςDatos, Datus, Daton, DatumSee further under delta 92 (a superior version of the present entry). [1] cf. Zenobius 3.11.Matched in noteshighshort
ι563Ἱππόλυτον μιμήσομαιI will copy Hippolytus… by resisting the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra. See further OCD(4) s.v. Hippolytus(1).Matched in noteshighshort
δ514Διὰ γὰρ μαχαιρῶν καὶ πυρὸς ῥίπτειν δεῖfor it is necessary to throw (oneself) through knives and fireZenobius 3.19, etc.; virtually repeated at delta 648.Matched in noteshighshort
ι700Ἵστοροςknowledgeable… tragedian Apollonides excerpted in Stobaeus 4.22a.7: 'to praise a woman's virtues worthily would be the task of a wise histor of words').Matched in noteshighshort
ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… headword phrase, as again in Photius, lacks 'to sail'). For further references see the apparatus of Adler and of Theodoridis on Photius. (The lacuna between "again" and "they discovered" is a suggestion of Erbse, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε880Ἕλκει μοιχὸς εἰς μοιχόνa seducer drags into a seducer… the need to avoid confusion between these two words). See further Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.364.Matched in noteshighshort
β11Βαβυλωνία κάμινοςBabylonian oven… In punishment, the king ordered them cast into a fiery furnace, but they were miraculously protected from harm. The story is frequently cited by Christian authors to refer, proverbially, to endurance in the face …Matched in noteshighshort
η691Ἡ ψελλὴ οὐ πιττεύωthe speech-impaired woman [says] I don't trutt [you]… The proverb's pitteu/w is a speech-impaired version of pisteu/w. For further examples of how such people would distort words, e.g. a)/rkton ('bear') into a)/rton ('bread'), see Comica adespota fr. 353 Kock, now Aristophanes fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… simplicity". The usage of the verb diw/kw with reference to virtue is widespread among Christian writers (cf. also John Chrysostom In Ep. 2 ad Cor. 61.488.4 Migne: tou=to di/wke, filosofi/an kai\ a)reth\n "love of …Matched in noteshighshort
α4223Ἀσταφίςraisin… Gow and Page (vol. I, 310-313); (vol. II, 344-345); and further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 1499, kappa 1222, kappa 1310, lambda 13, mu 447, and psi 31. [2] See already alpha 2190.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1377Ἐν Καρὶ τὸν κίνδυνονthe risk in a Carian… (but in the nominative case). cf. Zenobius 3.58, and see further epsilon 1378.Matched in noteshighshort