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Διονύσια
Dionysia
… Many quotations of Aristophanes in the Suda are introduced as
'proverbs'
(paroimiai), even if they would be better described as “pithy sayings”: cf. e.g. delta 1282, epsilon 3234, nu 597. It is possible that …
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1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… word, and a)letri/banos an Asian one. The scholia refer to
proverbial
expressions: scholia to Knights 984b paroimi/a, doi/duc au)/cei: e)pi\ tw=n li/an mikrw=n, "there is a
proverb,
"the grinder causes [things] to augment: [it …
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459
Ἐκλεκτός
chosen, selected
… that e)klekto/s should mean "selectable, deserving to be selected." [2]
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12.24 LXX, where the word is generally interpreted as "diligent". [3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Palladius, …
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465
Ἐκλειπέτωσαν
let them leave
… Biblical lemma, whose source contains a negative form: so e.g.
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3.3 LXX, "Let kindness and truth never leave you". See also Psalms 67.3 and 70.13. (All three instances spell the headword e)klipe/twsan, making …
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