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Ἀλλ' οὐ διὰ τὴν ἐν τῷ ποδὶ πρὸς τὴν λύραν ἀμετρίαν τρίαν
but not through the disproportion in the foot for the lyre
The headword phrase comes from Plato (or ps-Plato),
Clitopho
407C. Its proverbial status, implied by the present gloss, is not borne out by inclusion in the paroemiographic collections, but see Plutarch, Moralia 439C and …
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Ἀπὸ μηχανῆς
from a machine
… Diogenianus 2.84 and other paroemiographers; also the scholia to Plato,
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470A (and other scholia). For the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, testifies …
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