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αι86Αἰδώςshame… An approximation of Homer, Odyssey 17.347 (web address 1). Appendix Proverbiorum 1.9. [3] An approximation of Hesiod, Works and Days 317 (web address 2); quoted in the scholia to the Homer passage just mentioned. …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι125Αἰθίοπα σμήχεινto wash an Ethiopian whiteFirst attested -- as already proverbial -- in Lucian, To the Ignorant Book-buyer 28. See also the paroemiographers: Zenobius 1.46, Diogenianus 1.45, Macarius 1.62. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1893. For this …Matched in noteshighshort
αι76Αἰγυπτία κληματίςEgyptian vine-branch.

αι86

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shame

[Meaning] honor. And [there is] a proverb: "shame is not good for a man who is a beggar in need." In reference to those whose pleasantness harms them. Homer [says this]. Hesiod [writes]: "shame accompanies a man in…

Αἰδώς· ἡ ἐπιτιμία. καὶ παροιμία· Αἰδὼς δ' οὐκ ἀγαθὴ κεχρημένῳ ἀνδρὶ προΐκτῃ. ἐπὶ τῶν δι' ἐπιείκειαν βλαπτομένων. Ὅμηρος. Ἡσίοδος· αἰδὼς δὲ κεχρημένον ἄνδρα κομίζει. καὶ ἑτέρα…

… which 'Chrysippus [chi 568] in the first book of his Proverbs' is cited) and more fully 7.2. [1] cf. sigma 1313.

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αι114Αἰθέρα νήνεμον ἐρέσσειςyou are rowing the windless aetherZenobius 1.39. For this type of proverb cf. (e.g.) alpha 1399, alpha 1400, alpha 2261, gamma 508, alphaiota 125, epsilon 384, epsilon 591, epsilon 3207, epsilon 3238, epsiloniota 326, epsiloniota 327, kappa 129, pi …Matched in noteshighshort

αι332Αἰσώπειον αἷμαAesopic blood… of Aesop's death is told at alphaiota 334. For the proverb -- in its second version here -- see Zenobius 1.47, etc.Matched in noteshighshort

αι165Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτοif he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just… di/kh k'), and attributed to Rhadamanthys (rho 12, rho 13); proverbial in Appendix Proverbiorum 2.12. An anonymous commentator on the Ethics quotes this as two verses -- the first one is ei) kaka/ tis …Matched in noteshighshort

αι73Αἰγῶν ὀνόματαnanny-goats' names[1] Also, thus far, in Appendix Proverbiorum 1.8.Matched in noteshighshort

αι192Αἵματι κλαίεινto weep blood, to weep in blood… in other lexica which stem from Pausanias the Atticist (alpha46); proverbial, besides, in Apostolius 1.63. The source of the (full) quotation, however, is indeterminable. [2] Also in Apostolius 1.63 (see preceding note), but otherwise …Matched in noteshighshort

αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgrace… city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (1.70); note also the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 929: the phrase su\ d' a)ci/an ou)k …Matched in noteshighshort