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2045
Κόνος ἀρτοξύῃ
konos artoxuei, donkey scratch[es] back (?)
… the headword phrase is meaningless. It appears in the Appendix
Proverbiorum
(3.56) -- and nowhere else -- but with a different noun (kw=nos, "pinecone") and with a different version of the verb form (a)rtocu/ei, …
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11
Ἔαρος χρῄζει
is in want of spring
… present headword phrase comes from those scholia, but appears as
proverbial
in its own right in Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.3. The
proverb
"One swallow does not make a spring" (we would say "summer"), Cratinus fr. …
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400
Δηλίου κολυμβητοῦ
rhetoric
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3
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Delian diver
… omitted). [3] The paroemiographers do not, in fact, register the
proverb
in this nominative-case form; see rather Apostolius 5.100 (genitive, as above).
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125
Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν
to wash an Ethiopian white
First attested -- as already
proverbial
-- in Lucian, To the Ignorant Book-buyer 28. See also the paroemiographers: Zenobius 1.46, Diogenianus 1.45, Macarius 1.62. See generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1893. For this …
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3234
Ἁπλοῦν θύλακον πάτει
treads a single sack
Appendix
Proverbiorum
1.37 (etc.).
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β
460
Βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττης
an ox on the tongue
Likewise in Hesychius, Zenobius 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 …
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1740
Ἐξηπάτησεν ἡ χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελον
the stake deceived the vine
Aristophanes, Wasps 1291 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.71. See also eta 672, chi 97. [1] Here the manuscripts read sw=|zon "that which saves," but Kuster emends to sw|zo/menon "that which …
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689
Ἢ χρὴ τραγῳδεῖν ἢ μελαγχολᾶν
one must either make tragedy or be melancholic
… with pa/ntas after the first infinitive; cf. Diogenianus 5.13, Mantissa
Proverbiorum
1.67. Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1763, including Horace's well-known Latin version (Aut insanit homo aut versus facit -- not Tosi's facit versus …
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κ
388
Καρικῇ Μούσῃ
with a Carian muse
… Iliad 2.867. [3] cf. Macarius Chrysocephalus [metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1336-82],
Proverbs
5.9: *ka/rios ai)=nos: e)pi\ tw=n a)porou/ntwn ti diapra/casqai: a(lie/a ga/r fasi trofh=s a)porou=nta xeimw=ni ei)pei=n: *kolumbh/sw, a)lla\ r(igh/sw: mh\ kolumbh/sw, a)lla\ peina/sw; "Carian …
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1537
Κηροῦ εὐπλαστότερος
more malleable than wax
… there: web address 1). Similar entry in Gregory of Cyprus,
Proverbs
4.2; see generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1375; and again under pi 1693. [2] On chromatic and diatonic scales, see chi 538. …
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κ
2027
Κοννᾶς
Konnas, Connas
… 4576. [1] The Suda often calls pithy lines from Aristophanes
"proverbs";
in this instance, as in many others, they do not feature in the paroemiographers. [2] cf. kappa 2159, kappa 2161. [3] Cratinus fr. …
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2073
Κορδύλη
club, swelling, head-wrap
… and cf. epsilon 86, nu 369, phi 28. [2] Appendix
Proverbiorum
3.49 (where indeed the whole of the present entry occurs).
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165
Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο
if he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just
… di/kh k'), and attributed to Rhadamanthys (rho 12, rho 13);
proverbial
in Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.12. An anonymous commentator on the Ethics quotes this as two verses -- the first one is ei) kaka/ tis …
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δ
1419
Δοῦλος ὢν κόμην ἔχεις
despite being a slave you have [long] hair
[1] Aristophanes, Birds 911 (web address 1), and scholion;
proverbial
in Apostolius 6.34. [2] As at e.g. Herodotus 7.7.1 (web address 2), of Egypt after Xerxes' punitive invasion. Note also the
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'more enslaved …
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97
Ἐγκιλικίζεται
is acting the Cilician
… kappa 1607.) Whatever its origins, the headword was treated as
proverbial:
see Diogenianus 2.51 and Appendix
Proverbiorum
2.7. [1] See kappa 1606.
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165
Ἱερείας ἐνύπνιον
priestess's dream
… Photius iota49 Theodoridis), and cf. the headword phrase as a
proverb:
Appendix
proverbiorum
3.25. Ultimately a fragment of tau 602, the Sicilian historian Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566 F29) preserved in the scholia to …
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1052
Ἀλλὰ γάρ
but for all that
… fr. 68 Kock, now 77 K.-A. See Denniston 107. [2]
Proverb
used by [Plato], Critias 108C (see web address 1 below); see generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.856. On trophies cf. tau 1049 …
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71
Βάλλ' ἐς κόρακας
go to the crows!
… entry in ps.-Zonaras, is ambiguous. Perhaps [CR] a reference to
Proverbs
24.52 (30.17) LXX; alternatively [DW] to epsilon 3154 (above).
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89
Εἰκότων
probable [things]
… scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 280; cf. eta 189. [4] This
proverb
has appeared already at epsiloniota 79, with a rather different explanation.
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231
Ἥλιξ ἥλικα τέρπει
age-mate delights age-mate
… and now 42E Athanassiadi). For earlier appearances of this 'old
proverb'
see e.g. Plato, Phaedrus 240C (with this very phrase), several times in Aristotle, and the paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1066. It …
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277
Ἶκταρ
close together
… [3] Zenobius 5.55; scholion on Plato, Republic 575C, where the
proverb
is quoted (web address 1); see also omicron 825. [4] From omicron 825; cf. delta 1233.
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1049
Ἅλα
salt
… 1047. [2] Homer, Odyssey 17.455 (web address 1). Apparently a
proverbial
expression for a minimal gift; compare Theocritus, Idylls 27.61.
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3121
Ἀπειλή
threat
… Hesychius s.v. regards the headword as quoted from the Septuagint
(Proverbs
19.12, etc.). cf. generally alpha 3122, alpha 3123.
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3207
Ἀπίκιος
Apicius
Nicholas Purcell in OCD(4) p.117, s.v. Apicius:
'proverbial
cognomen of several Roman connoisseurs of luxury, especially in food, in particular M. Gavius Apicius (PIR(2) G91 [...] in the Tiberian period, i.e. early 1st cent. …
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359
Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτία
the citizen's error (is) the city's disgrace
… city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as
proverbial
in the C15 paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (1.70); note also the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 929: the phrase su\ d' a)ci/an ou)k …
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β
55
Βακχεία ποιμαντική
Bacchic herdsmanship
… beta 57, beta 58. Perhaps the headword phrase is a
proverbial
saying, similar to English "a wolf in the sheepfold". Dionysus and his followers, with their habit of tearing animals to pieces (cf. Euripides' …
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145
Βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος
king's brain, king's morsel
[1] delta 1204.
Proverbial
expression for rare and costly food; see LSJ s.v. e)gke/falos III. [2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychos (alpha 4251). Apparently this is what it means if you …
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315
Γλυκὺ μέλι καὶ πνιξάτω
honey (is) sweet and let him choke
The headword-phrase (also in Appendix
Proverbiorum
1.77, and see generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1539) does not make good sense as transmitted; as Adler notes, some Suda mss show attempted corrections, such as …
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376
Γόμφοι
bolts, dowels, tenons
… other lexica; references at Photius gamma182 Theodoridis; and cf. the
proverb
at alpha 1419. For the basic meaning and applications of the headword (first attested in Homer), here in the nominative plural, see LSJ …
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δ
1262
Διπλοῦν κάππα
double kappa
… 1261. [2] Constantine Porphyrogenitus, de thematibus 2.69; described there as
proverbial.
(One might compare, broadly, the line from John Taylor [1578-1653], Beggar's Litany: "from Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us".)
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