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Ἀγροίκου μὴ καταφρόνει ῥήτορος
don't despise a rustic rhetor
Comica adespota fr. 627 Kock, now 947 K.-A.;
Zenobius
1.15; Tosi (below) no.2104, with later material. For "rustic" cf. alpha 375, alpha 376, alpha 377, alpha 380.
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1419
Ἄλλοις μὲν γλῶττα ἄλλοις δὲ γόμφοι
for some a tongue [but] for others molars
Zenobius
1.73. On gomphoi, molars, see gamma 373, gamma 374, gamma 376.
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Ἀμαία
Amaia
Zenobius
4.20. See already alpha 597 and the note there.
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2596
Ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι πηγαί
streams are flowing up rivers
[1]
Zenobius
2.56 (and other paroemiographers); also in Photius, who cites the instance in Demosthenes 19.287. An earlier one still is Euripides, Medea 410. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1890.
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3330
Ἀπὸ ἵππων ἐπ' ὄνους
from horses to donkeys
cf.
Zenobius
2.33 and other paroemiographers; also e.g. Libanius, Epistles 34.2. Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.12.
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4718
Ἄχρι
up to
… Homer, Iliad 4.521-522 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [4]
Zenobius
1.44; cf. Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica 50.4. [5] An approximation of Demosthenes 19.187 (web address 2).
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493
Γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττεις
you are assigning guard-duty to a naked man
… 144 Kock, now 154 K.-A.) in the first instance; cf.
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2.98. [2] Quotation unidentifiable; found also in a syntactical lexicon. [3] Quotation unidentified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as one of …
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555
Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλου
out of every timber
… basically the same even if the wording is different. In
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the proverb presents a third variant ki/wn (pillar). This reading brings us closer to the context of the statue of Hermes. It is …
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814
Ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖν
to make an elephant out of a fly
Zenobius
3.68, Apostolius 7.5, etc.; cf. epsilon 816. As we say, to make a mountain out of a molehill. [1] Lucian, Muscae Encomium 12.
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1378
Ἐν Καρὸς εἵπετο τάξει
he followed in a Carian's role
… headword phrase comes from Julian, Speech 2, 56c Hertlein. Cf.
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3.59, etc. For Carians in proverbs see also epsilon 1377; for mercenaries see mu 1121, mu 1122.
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3391
Εὐγενέστερος Κόδρου
nobler than Kodros, nobler than Codrus
… Jacoby as dubious. For Eudemos see epsilon 3411. [2] cf.
Zenobius
4.3.
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3971
Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινον
they escaped a bad thing [and] found a better
… date. Similar glosses of the proverb are found in (e.g.)
Zenobius
3.98, Hesychius, Photius, and Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (1726.18), but with one noteworthy difference: in these other versions, the boy is said …
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4028
Ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα κοὐκ ὀνήσιμα
enemies' charities are uncharitable and not helpful
… mu 1234, nu 441. For this as a proverb see
Zenobius
4.4 and other paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.2210. [2] Ascribed to the verse dream-book of Astrampsychos (alpha 4251).
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314
Ἰλιὰς κακῶν
Iliad of evils, Iliad of woes
Demosthenes 19.148; Diodorus Siculus 36.6; Photius, Lexicon iota108 Theodoridis;
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4.43; etc. (In Latin Ilias malorum: Cicero and others.) cf. iota 313.
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171
Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ᾠόν
bad crow's bad egg
Zenobius
4.82. [1] See kappa 2066 (Corax). [2] No Suda entry but see OCD(4) s.v.
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437
Καρύκη
sauce
… [2] Aristophanes, Knights 343: web address 1 below. [3] cf.
Zenobius
5.3, and the scholia to Aeschylus, Persians 41.
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2798
Κυφόν
bent
… weight. Notice also the variant ku/fwn, i.e. masculine singular, in
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4.7, Apostolius 6.95 and other paroemiographers ('a crooked man might come'). Even granted these differences in the object mentioned, the overall meaning of …
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