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α4525Αὐτός τι νῦν δρῶν εἶτα τοὺς θεοὺς κάλειdo something now (and) then call upon the gods… Nauck (which has dai/monas, not the Suda's tou\s qeou/s). Cf. "God helps those who help themselves." Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1290.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kings… 45 for the related maxim that Death is the one god without an interest in gifts.Matched in noteshighshort
α4112ἈρχίλοχοςArchilochus, Archilochos, Arkhilokhos… For this verb cf. alpha 3513. [2] Apollo. [3] A god of war: epsilon 1498. [4] Apollo's priestess and mouthpiece. [5] A promontory in the southern Peloponnese; modern Cape Matapan. [6] "Cricket"; a hero. …Matched in noteshighmedium
η350Ἡμίσεια Ἥμισυ παντόςhalf… not named, but DW suggests that it should be a god, the usual provider of poluwri/a in Aelian and elsewhere (see e.g. pi 1991).Matched in noteshighmedium
δ748Διασείστουςshaken… cf. kappa 2602 note [4]), perhaps in allusion to the gods above and the proverb, "For only the dice of a god always fall well" (Sophocles fr. 895P = 809N; cf. alpha 607).Matched in noteshighshort
α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… says that he would not discuss anything with any other gods than the ones Socrates has just named, Emptiness and Clouds and Tongue. [8] Homer, Odyssey 8.296-97: Hephaestus lays a snare for the adulterous …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1066Ἀλλ' ἀντέπεσε τὴν ἐπ' ἄγκυραν θεόςbut the weather fell contrary to the anchorEvidently proverbial, though not in the paroemiographers. For "god" in the sense of weather see LSJ s.v. qeo/s I.A.1.d.Matched in noteshighshort
β266Βησᾶς ἕστηκεν οἷον ἀχανήςBesas stands as if gaping… gloss. Besa(s) occurs in Eusebius and elsewhere as an Egyptian god.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… dikaiosu/nhn, eu)se/beian, pi/stin, a)ga/phn, u(pomonh/n, prau+paqi/an; "But you, man of God, [flee the love of money and material goods] and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness" (web address 1); cf. 2 Timothy 2.22, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2586ΚυβέληKubele, Kybele, Cybele; Kubebe, The Great Mother of the Gods and Men… in Rome as Magna Deum Mater (Great Mother of the Gods) and hence today as 'The Great Mother'. Catullus' Attis (poem 63) describes with a certain horror the practice of castration at these rituals, …Matched in noteshighmedium
η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the herald… the tongue of the sacrificial victims was dedicated to the god. Eustathius, for instance, in Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey 1.131, reports as a proverbial expression ta/mnete glw/ssas, literally, 'cut the tongues!', meaning make a …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… by ancient commentators to be used in praying to the gods as e)/popoi 'overseers' (web address 1). The word e)/popos, with recessive accent, is attested only in scholarly works (Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad …Matched in noteshighlong
μ607Μενετοὶ θεοὶ καὶ μὴ ἀποδιδῶσι μισητίᾳlong-suffering are the gods and (if) he does not pay back out of insatiability… line is the first half of a proverb -- "the gods are long-suffering but not deceitful" -- though it does not appear as such in the paroemiographers. 'He' is a hypothetical person who thinks …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3442Εὐερμίαgood fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes… 3037, epsilon 3038, epsilon 3034) in his capacity as the god who brings prosperity (OCD(4) s.v., 2nd. para.; LIMC 5.285-387, esp. 287-88 "le dieu d'abondance"); it is related to the phallic talisman called the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε555Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλουout of every timber… good by nature in order to be seized by the god. Iamblichus alludes to the same situation in his Life of Pythagoras (ch.34). He also understands the proverb as meaning that not every material …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia… worshipped as Melanaigis, in commemoration of the legend of the god first appearing to the daughters of Eleutheros, the king of the village, dressed in a goat-skin. Rejected by them, Dionysos would have made …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1036ΜίδαςMidas… (or Marsyas), where a king Midas, appropriately, chose a Phrygian god over Apollo, who then punished him by giving him the ass's ears. This entry appears not to know this myth or the story …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… if we are not as we should be towards the gods, we shall be split in two a second time and will go around like those profile bas-reliefs on the stelae (web address 1), …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3344Ἔτυχονhit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced… a concept of succeeding under the fashioning power of the gods (or a trainer), almost visually of arriving at, or “hitting”, the finish line in a race (cf. Villard Leglay's excellent section on Pindar, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2701Κυνῆdog-cap… were said to be "winged"; cf. Polybios 1.46.11. [3] The goddess Iris. [4] The petasos was a broad-brimmed hat frequently worn by travellers; pi 1387.Matched in noteshighshort
α523Ἀδράστεια ΝέμεσιςAdrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos… the Greeks immediately honor Nemesis with a temple, addressing the goddess as Adrasteia." For the temple to Adrasteia Nemesis, see Strabo 13.1.13.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1389Κέρδος αἰσχύνης ἄμεινονadvantage is better than dishonour… more that he can ward off the arrows [of the gods] from his soul?" The original's mata/|zwn, "doing vain, foolish things", is misconstrued as matai/wn "of vain, foolish ones", and as the start of …Matched in noteshighshort
γ282Γλαὺξ ἵπταταιan owl is flying… Iliad 14.291 (web address 1 below), where xalki/s is the gods' name for a bird that the humans call ku/mindis. The addition of this sentence to an entry which has had occasion to mention …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… three parallel explanations of a phrase ("you will destroy the gods with Melian starvation") found at Aristophanes, Birds 186, the first two closely related to notes in scholia thereto, the third drawn from a …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… we have a good collection of this abracadabra. (If the goddess of the witches, Hecate, appears to you at a dangerous place such as a triple crossroad, you might try saying to her, three …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… yourself as a suppliant to the shrines of the evil-averting gods". For another instance of the verb in reference to purificatory rituals see Hesychius lambda691 s. v. *le/rnh qeatw=n (The Lerne of the theaters, …Matched in noteshighshort