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- α3853Ἄρης τύραννοςAres despot; Ares tyrantMacarius 2.39; also (with no glossing) in Hesychius.
- α4359Ἀττικὴ πίστιςAttic pledgeMacarius 2.60-61.
- α3824ἈρεοπαγίτηςAreopagite… of the Are(i)opagos Council/Court in Athens. See alpha 3838.) [2] Macarius 2.30. [3] Macarius 2.31. [4] Plato Comicus fr. 104 Kock, now 112 K.-A. [5] Anaxandrides ["Alexandrides" is in error, as Hemsterhuys pointed out: …
- α3337Ἀπὸ καταδυομένηςfrom a sinking (ship)[1] Also in Macarius 2.27.
- α1341Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη ἄλλοτε μήτηρsometimes a day is a step-mother (but) sometimes a motherHesiod, Works and Days 825; in Macarius 1.90 and other paroemiographers. Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.31.
- α292Ἀγόμενος διὰ φρατέρων κύων μαστιγοῦταιa dog led through phratry-members is whipped… 694, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.1141-2). As a proverb (cf. Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.15) the phrase presumably concerns admission to phratries and the exposure of fraudulent attempts at this.
- α3770Ἀργείους ὁρᾷςyou see Argives… some of the later paroemiographers. In Appendix Proverbiorum 3.35 and Macarius 2.38 the Suda's explanation appears alongside another one, about suspicions of theft (said to be a charge comically levelled at Argives -- cf. …
- β81Βακτηρία καὶ σχῆμα καὶ τριβώνιον ἢ τριώβολονstaffs and manner and little cloak, or three-obol feecf. Macarius 2.73. For the jurors' staffs cf. already beta 49; for their fee cf. tau 998. There is a punning resemblance in Greek -- lost in translation -- between tribonion and triobolon.
- α4076Ἀρχαιότερα τῆς διφθέρας λέγειςyou talk more old-fashioned than the hide… fr. 564 Kock (but not in K.-A.); cf. Diogenianus 3.2, Macarius 2.48. cf. zeta 39.
- α4099Ἀρχὴν μὲν μὴ φῦναι ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἄριστονFirst, not to be born is best for earth-bound men, and not to look upon the rays of the sharp sun; but, once born, [best] to drive as quickly as possible through Hades' gatesA gloomy proverb (Macarius 2.45) expressed in one-and-a-half elegiac couplets.
- α1194Ἄλλην δρῦν βαλάνιζεshake acorns from another oakSame entry in ps.-Zonaras. [1] Diogenianus 1.19. [2] Macarius 1.88.
- α1142Ἀλλ' ἕπου χώρας τρόποιςbut follow a country's wayscf. Macarius 1.89, etc.; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1619. The headword phrase -- precursor of the modern "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" -- comes from what is perhaps an unidentifiable …