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10 entries for Theognis

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ε3127Ἔσεισέ μου τὴν καρδίανhe shook my heart… (summarizing lines 10-11). For Aeschylus see generally alphaiota 357; for Theognis theta 137.Matched in noteshighshort
α3756Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύεινpainful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senseless… first, hexameter half (line 625) of a gnomic couplet of Theognis; registered as proverbial by Diogenianus (2.90) and other paroemiographers. [2] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.471, where a)rgale/on occurs. [3] Lejeune (below) …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project… commentators compare it to the collection of epigrams attributed to Theognis [OCD(4) 1459-60]: Bergk (Poetae Lyrici Graeci 3.690); Foulon and Weil (Polybius, Budé edn., vol.10, p.63n.), cf. West p. 9. The use of a)nte/tuxen …Matched in noteshigh

ε3127

Ἔσεισέ μου τὴν καρδίαν

he shook my heart

Meaning he distressed [it]. He 'shook my heart' because, expecting the poetry of Aeschylus, that of Theognis was introduced.

Ἔσεισέ μου τὴν καρδίαν· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐλύπησεν. ὁ δὲ ἔσεισέ μου τὴν καρδίαν, ὅτι τὰ τοῦ Αἰσχύλου προσδοκῶν ποιήματα, εἰσήχθη τὰ τοῦ Θεόγνιδος.

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α2734ἈντιφάνηςAntiphanes… of Tranos') for tranos 'distinct', and a dating allusion to Theognis (cf. theta 137) rather than Thespis. [3] The phrase is attested only here and, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.Matched in noteshighshort

β460Βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττηςan ox on the tongue… 2.70, and elsewhere. This proverb is used by, amongst others, Theognis, verse 815, and Aeschylus, Agamemnon 36 (text at web address 1). Only the first of the explanations given has any merit: the version …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1653Δύσλοφα(things) hard to bear… adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere, probably early poetry. (Theognis and Bacchylides have instances of the singular.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε1416Ἐνωρμίσθηwas brought in to anchor, was brought in to habour… rest on a misreading of the first person singular in Theognis, Elegies 2.1274.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1489Ἐν τριόδῳ εἰμὶ λογισμῶνI am at a crossroads in my calculationsTheognis 911; Plato, Laws 799C; Zenobius 3.78; etc. 'Crossroads' sounds natural in English, but note that the Greek has triodos, literally a three-road junction. (cf. Oedipus' murder of his father 'where three wagon-tracks meet': …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2622Ἐπίστηyou know, you understand; stand on (?)… as e)pi/stasai in Attic (e)pi/sta| in poetic Doric, e)pi/sth| in Theognis, and e)pi/steai in Herodotus). [3] Seemingly an alternative interpretation of the headword as an imperative, with e)piti/qei intended as an analogous form rather …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3141Ἐσθλά[things] good [of their kind]… elegiac epigram similar to those in the collection ascribed to Theognis) see epsilon 2239, note 2. [2] Polybius 15.16.6, here applying the proverb to Hannibal after his defeat by Scipio Africanus at Zama. It …Matched in noteshighshort