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ε1877Ἑορτὴ πολλὰ ἔχουσαa festival having many thingscf. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.76-77, where two similar proverbs (and their glosses, here combined) are differentiated: 'a festival having many things' and 'a festival having feet (po/das)'.Matched in noteshighshort
ε11Ἔαρος χρῄζειis in want of spring… present headword phrase comes from those scholia, but appears as proverbial in its own right in Appendix Proverbiorum 2.3. The proverb "One swallow does not make a spring" (we would say "summer"), Cratinus fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε555Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλουout of every timber

ε1877

Ἑορτὴ πολλὰ ἔχουσα

a festival having many things

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those storing away a lot of merchandise. It is a saying from the fact that people hurry to festivals, where many holy things and coats and loaves are on display, so as not to be…

Ἑορτὴ πολλὰ ἔχουσα· ἐπὶ τῶν πολλὰ ἀποτιθεμένων φορτία. εἴρηται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρὸς τὰς ἑορτὰς ἐπειγομένων, οἳ πολλὰ ἐπιφέρονται καὶ ἱερεῖα καὶ ἱμάτια καὶ ἄρτους, ἵνα μηδενὸς…

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… Theodoridis. The headword phrase is the first part of a proverb, immediately completed by what follows. See also Paroemiographi Graeci no.372 Gaisford (= Gregorius 1.83), where we find a fuller explanation of its meaning …

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ε1505Ἐν φρέατι κυσὶ μάχεσθαιto fight with dogs in a well… unidentifiable. (Adler suggested the emperor Julian, who does sometimes cite proverbs in this kind of way.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε531Ἑκοντίwillingly… final acute accent because of the enclitic ge. For the proverb (glossed as "in reference to those doing something under duress") see Appendix Proverbiorum 2.51.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1630Ἐξ ἑνὸς τὰ πάνθ' ὁρᾶνfrom one thing to see everythingLikewise in Photius. Both the proverb itself and other, more explicit glosses (e.g. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.69) make it clear what sense of the verb parora=n is needed here. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3008Ἔρις ἔριν τίκτουσα προσμνᾶται λόγονcontention begetting contention facilitates discussionLikewise in Mantissa Proverbiorum 1.60 (with glosses on 'facilities' and 'chattering' appended). Arsenius 7.94a omits the phrase 'out of friendship' but adds an explanatory clause: 'i.e. arguing about philosophy'. For the first two words, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between the geographical location of his kingdom and the fact that Zenobius (above) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε695Ἐκκυβεύεινto gamble (everything) on dice… common in Greek, of gambling all on battle, see the proverbs "Let the die be cast (or, rather, tossed)" (alpha 2310, epsilon 3013, kappa 2591, kappa 2602) and "Triple six or just three dice" …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1379Ἓν κηρίονa single honeycombAppendix Proverbiorum 2.62. For honeycombs see also mu 503.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1426Ἐν πίθῳ τὴν κεραμίαν μανθάνεινto learn the potter's craft on a wine-jarThis proverb -- of those running before they can walk -- appears in e.g. Plato (Laches 187B, with scholion; Gorgias 514E); cf. also Zenobius 3.65 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1684Ἐξέχειν τὸν ἥλιονthe sun to shine out… Pollux 9.123, Hesychius epsilon3821. [1] Not, however, in the standard proverb-collections. [2] Aristophanes fr. 389 Kock (404 K.-A.). [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 771-2 (with 'will be'): web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1740Ἐξηπάτησεν ἡ χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελονthe stake deceived the vineAristophanes, Wasps 1291 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.71. See also eta 672, chi 97. [1] Here the manuscripts read sw=|zon "that which saves," but Kuster emends to sw|zo/menon "that which …Matched in noteshighshort

ε97Ἐγκιλικίζεταιis acting the Cilician… kappa 1607.) Whatever its origins, the headword was treated as proverbial: see Diogenianus 2.51 and Appendix Proverbiorum 2.7. [1] See kappa 1606.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1331Ἐνιαυτὸς Μέτωνοςyear of Meton, Meton's year… Babylonian practice" (OCD, below). The headword phrase is preserved as proverbial (with a similar but longer gloss) in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.83.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1717ἘξηκεστίδηςExekestides… of this play (414 BCE), see Dunbar 137-8. For the proverb implied by the last sentence here see (e.g.) Appendix Proverbiorum 2.70.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… 'a wailing, curlew-like koo-ree.' This is probably the Greek charadrios (proverbial for its gluttony at Plato, Gorgias 494B). Pisetaerus congratulates Tereus at line 266 on his imitation of this bird. We should take this …Matched in noteshighlong

ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project… as a compliment to his patron, Scipio Aemilianus. [3] This proverb is the second line of an elegiac couplet, listed as of unknown authorship in Iambi et Elegi, ed. M.L. West, vol.2 (2nd. edn., …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1004Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθραEmpedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatred… underlines its point with wordplay: Empedokles/e)mpodw\n "impede".) The phrase sounds proverbial already by this time, and it certainly became so later: see Diogenianus 4.77 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1421Ἐν παντὶ μύθῳ καὶ τὸ Δαιδάλου μύσοςin every myth (there is) also the defilement of Daedalus… 4.6 and other paroemiographers. (There is wordplay, mythos/mysos, in the proverb itself which gets lost in translation.) For Daedalus (Daidalos) cf. generally delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109, delta 110; for Pasiphae …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε60Ἐγήγαρτοςjoy-inducing… joy": LSJ), which Latte identifies as extracted from the Septuagint (Proverbs 11.3).Matched in noteshighshort

ε155Ἐγὼ ποιήσω πάντα κατὰ ΝικόστρατονI myself will do everything according to Nikostratos… not in K.-A.: instead, registered as Aelius Aristides 36.85 K). Proverbial in Macarius Chrysocephalus 3.46 and elsewhere. The present material is repeated (changing only this perfect infinitive to a present) at the end of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε336Ἔθυσας ἀντιθύσῃyou sacrificed [so] you should sacrifice in turn… Philoxenus [phi 393] fr. 10 Bergk (PMG 823 Page); Appendix Proverbiorum 2.10; scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.219. [2] Homer, Odyssey 9.231.Matched in noteshighshort

ε459Ἐκλεκτόςchosen, selected… that e)klekto/s should mean "selectable, deserving to be selected." [2] Proverbs 12.24 LXX, where the word is generally interpreted as "diligent". [3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Palladius, …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε465Ἐκλειπέτωσανlet them leave… Biblical lemma, whose source contains a negative form: so e.g. Proverbs 3.3 LXX, "Let kindness and truth never leave you". See also Psalms 67.3 and 70.13. (All three instances spell the headword e)klipe/twsan, making …Matched in noteshighshort

ε562Ἐκπερδικίσαιto escape like a partridge… initial ek- as an intensifier). Either way, the verb became proverbial in Diogenianus and other paroemiographers. cf. delta 911.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1060Ἐμοὶ μελήσει ταῦτα καὶ λευκαῖς κόραιςI will attend to these matters and (so will) white maidensAn iambic trimeter, also in Appendix Proverbiorum 2.55. Generated by the Gauls' attack on Delphi in 278 BCE. See generally J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley 1978) 344, Q231.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1112Ἐν ἀμούσοις καὶ κόρυδος φθέγγεταιamongst the unmusical even a lark sings… also Eustathius. LSJ s.v. ko/rudos duly register it as a proverb of the 'in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king' type (for which cf. generally epsilon 1147, epsilon 1154). Modern …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1294Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow; the old… Cf. delta 1205. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 410 (later proverbial). On the form of the headword see epsilon 1325. At line 770 Hesiod uses it in its other sense for the end of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1325Ἔνηφιon the day after tomorrow… and Days 410, in a gnomic utterance which later became proverbial: "not to put off to tomorrow and the day after" (see under epsilon 1294, and cf. epsilon 1295). It is preceded by a …Matched in noteshighshort

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