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μ392Μέγα τοι ἄγγελος ἐσθλόςa good messenger [is] a great thingLikewise in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.81. For a less banal proverb about messengers see alpha 3729.Matched in noteshighshort
μ742Μετάφερε σαυτόνchange yourself… Delphic maxim "know yourself" (gamma 333, gamma 334) -- looks proverbial but is not attested as such. The closest extant parallel for it occurs in Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.41.1: pa/nta dh\ tau=ta e)pi\ seauto\n …Matched in noteshighshort
μ818Μέτρῳ ὕδωρ πίνοντες ἀμετρίαν δὲ μᾶζον ἔδοντεςdrinking water within limits but eating unlimited barley-bread… note at alpha 1561, where the second clause of the proverb is written with the adverb a)metri/ ('limitlessly') in place of the adjective a)metri/an ('unlimited')Matched in noteshighshort
μ116Μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξrather the PhrygianThis proverb is also in Photius (mu78 Theodoridis, from Pausanias the Atticist) and the paroemiographers (e.g. Zenobius 5.16). For "Aesop the Phrgyian", and Croesus, see generally alphaiota 334. For the Seven Sages see OCD(4) …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ699Μεταλαγχάνειcomes late and misses a share (?)… catches the drift of the quip and replies, "Aha, the proverb! We have come after a feast and we are too late." The proverb, as reconstructed, must be to the effect, "Be late to …Matched in noteshighshort
μ739Μετὰ τὴν ἐν Μαραθῶνι μάχην καὶ μετὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἡ συμμαχίαafter the battle in Marathon and after the war (comes) the allianceThis proverb is noted by two of the late paroemiographers: Macarius Chrysocephalus 5.85 and Apostolius 11.30, but each gives it slightly differently from each other and from the Suda's version. What the Suda's gloss …Matched in noteshighshort
μ607Μενετοὶ θεοὶ καὶ μὴ ἀποδιδῶσι μισητίᾳlong-suffering are the gods and (if) he does not pay back out of insatiability… half of the 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
μ382Μεγαρέων ἄξιοι μερίδοςworthy of a Megarians' portion; worthy of a Megarians' share… Attica (east) and Corinthia (south), see also mu 383 (another proverb, mu 384, mu 385, mu 386. Megara -- on the site of the modern Greek city of the same name, where several monuments …Matched in noteshighshort
μ826Μέχρι τῶν ἀμφωτίδωνup to the ear-muffsComica adespota fr. 736 Kock, but not in K.-A.; Appendix Proverbiorum 3.89, etc. See already alpha 1791.Matched in noteshighshort
μ187ΜαργίτηςMargites… Photius (mu106 Theodoridis). The name Margites is used of both proverbal madmen and proverbial simpletons (mu 185), and at gamma 118 the present material attaches to someone called (apparently) Melitides.Matched in noteshighshort
μ177ΜαραθώνMarathon… s.v. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 260 Pfeiffer. [3] Apparently a proverbial or quasi-proverbial phrase: see e.g. Plutarch, Flamininus 11.6. [4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 181 (web address 1); from alpha 4343. [5] delta 929.Matched in noteshighshort
μ380Μεγάνορος πλούτου[more than] lordly wealth… of gold. [2] "Gold/wealth is the sinews of war" is proverbial, and not otherwise attributed to Pindar. The saying is quoted in the Pindar scholia to Olympian 1.4b, Appian (Civil War 4.12.99), Plutarch (Agis …Matched in noteshighshort

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