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2537
Ἄνθρωπος λυπησιλόγος
a man who gives pain by talking
… means he who is paining those nearby because of his
talking.
Cratinus [sc. uses the phrase].
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2263
Ἀνέμῳ διαλέγῃ
you are talking to a wind
[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who are not heard. [Another] proverb [is]: "directions of winds"; "for locals know best not only the directions of the winds, according to the proverb, but …
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4228
Ἀστεϊζόμενος
talking wittily
[Meaning one who is] showing off, making a display of himself, cleverly inventing. Also [sc. attested is] a)stei+smo/s, the [noun that means] to act as a fellow citizen.
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2683
Ἀντίμαχος
Antimachus, Antimachos, Antimakhos
… Psekas ["Sputterer"] since he sprinkled [with spit] whomever he was
talking
with. There was also an Olympian called Psekas because of this. This Antimachus resolved to propose a decree to forbid the satirizing of …
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2921
Ἀπαργμάτων ὡρίων καιριώτερον
more fitting than seasonable grave-offerings
The Theologian says [this] in his
Yesterday
on the bright day of lights. Meaning enagismata, ["offerings"] which they used to throw into tombs. But kairiw/teron [sc. also means] more necessary.
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3459
Ἀπ' ὄνου καταπεσών
having fallen from a donkey
… handle donkeys. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "why, pray, are you
talking
nonsense, as if you had fallen from a donkey?" But the philosopher Plato says the proverb with "the mind" taking the place of …
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4075
Ἀρχαῖος
simple
… naive. Plato [sc. uses the word in this sense]. Or
[talking?]
nonsense. But [the related adverb] a)rxai/ws [means] carelessly, unobservantly; or even foolishly, naively. "[They] humming tunes simple-honeyed-Sidon-Phrynichus-lovely."
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4587
Ἀφέλεια
simplicity
And Damascius says that Isidore, besides simplicity, loved truthfulness especially, and undertook to be straight-talking beyond what was necessary, and had no pretence in himself whatsoever.
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1356
Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματι
so did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?
… with scholion. (The participle laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is
talking
to, and about, a woman.)
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