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- α4490Αὐτὸ δείξειwill show itselfA proverb. 'The deed' is left out.
- α4472Αὐτὴ κάμινος αὐτὸς εἵλκυσε καπνὸς ἢ τροχόςthe oven itself, the smoke itself or the wheel dragged on… Adler indicates no textual problems.) The first element does, of itself, constitute a proverbial saying: so Photius, explicitly, with a gloss very similar to the present one; also Hesychius, who has such a gloss …
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… bring on gods; not setting them out on the stage itself, but on high by means of some kind of machine. The spectators would see this machine beforehand, but at the appointed time he …
- ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… epsilon 3796 as a proper name). The present entry concerns itself with the specialized religious connotation of "good speech" to mean "ritual silence"; cf. epsilon 3792. [1] Apparently a fragment of Iambic poetry. Ascribed …
- β587ΒύβλονByblian… in "all"? [3] cf. Zenobius 2.73 (omitting 'big'). The proverb itself is an iambic trimeter.
- ε2498Ἐπὶ ξυροῦon a razor… au)to/ for au)tou=, yielding the sense "the power [or government] itself was on a razor's edge." Adler does not report this variant in her apparatus.
- α425ἈδάμAdam… this wisdom and this discrimination? He gave names to nature itself, as though prescribing the essence of each animal, without practice, without prior consideration, with no preparatory effort at the things which people take …