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13 entries for proverbs

ν378Νικᾷ τὸν ὀνηλάτηνhe is defeating the donkey-drivercf. Diogenianus 3.37, Appendix Proverbiorum 4.8. For a donkey-driver in another proverb see omicron 397, omicron 400.Matched in noteshighshort
ν274Νεφέλας ξαίνειςyou are carding clouds… very similar epsilon 3207, and for this common genre of proverb cf. (e.g.) alpha 1621, alpha 2169, epsilon 1111, epsilon 1536, epsilon 3196. [2] From epsiloniota 165, q.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ν604Νῦν εὐπλόηκα ὅτε νεναυάγηκαnow I made a good voyage when I suffered shipwreck… initially disruptive but ultimately beneficial effects of changing teachers). Later proverbial: Mantissa Proverbiorum 2.33. [1] The founder of Stoicism: see generally zeta 79. [2] See generally kappa 2341.Matched in noteshighshort
ν77Ναύσων ΝαυκράτηNauson Naukrates, Nauson NaucratesVery similar entry (to the first paragraph here) in Appendix Proverbiorum 4.1, where the phrase itself takes the same form: two personal names, the second in the accusative, and thus an implicit verb linking …Matched in noteshighshort
ν576Νύκτα δασείηνshaggy night, thick nightIn the paroemiographers (e.g. Appendix Proverbiorum 4.9) -- and regularly, as here, in the accusative case. For the adjective see delta 77.Matched in noteshighshort
ν100Ναὶ ναὶ μὰ μήκωνος χλόηνyes yes by a poppy's sproutLikewise in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.100. The headword phrase (for which cf. already mu 125) is an unattributable fragment of poetry: Iambica Adespota (West, 1972) fr. 57.Matched in noteshighshort
ν119Νεάτηbottom, neate… (for all three of these strings) under nu 347. Appendix Proverbiorum 4.3.Matched in noteshighshort
ν263Νέοις μὲν ἔργαyoung men should act (but) their elders adviseA truncated version (also in Appendix Proverbiorum 4.6) of an axiom attributed by Hyperides (fr. 57 Jensen) to Hesiod: e)/rga ne/wn, boulai\ de\ me/swn, eu)xai\ de\ gero/ntwn, "Young men's acts, the middle-aged's advice, old …Matched in noteshighshort
ν192ΝεοκλῆςNeokles, Neocles… himself or else to Democritus. At any rate it became proverbial (lambda 41; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 8.28; etc.), and Plutarch devoted an entire work to it (Moralia 1128Aff), entitled Whether the …Matched in noteshighshort
ν193Νεοκλείδου κλεπτίστεροςmore thieving than Neokleides; more thieving than Neoclides… scholia there. The source of the headword phrase itself -- proverbial in Apostolius 11.99 -- is unidentifiable. The comparative klepti/steros occurs only in lexica and grammarians, but Aristophanes uses (and perhaps coined) the superlative …Matched in noteshighshort
ν610Νῦν σωθείηνnow may I be saved so that I might have this lesson for the future… Offering the eagle all the gifts of the Red Sea (proverbial: see Perry p.150 n.a), the tortoise is then carried aloft by the eagle into the clouds, but is dropped. Dying, the tortoise asks …Matched in noteshighshort
ν241Νέωταnext year… (C), "belonging to the former of two periods". [3] Considered proverbial (already at alpha 608): Zenobius 2.43; attributed to Philemon fr. 82 Kock = part of 85 Kassel-Austin (through John Stobaeus), Theopompus fr. 1 …Matched in noteshighmedium
ν214Νεοττόςchick, nestling, yolk… though Wehrli assigns this actual fragment (no.76b) to another work, Proverbia. Jonathan Toup ventured to correct it to peri\ w)|w=n "On Eggs." Dobree emended oi( prw=toi "earliest" to oi( pro\ tou= "those before our …Matched in noteshighmedium

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