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Βάττου σίλφιον
Battos' silphium, Battus' silphium
[sc. A
proverbial
phrase] in reference to those receiving rare honors. For the Cyrenaeans gave a special silphium to one of the Battoi, and on one side of the coin they stamped [a picture …
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293
Βίος
life
… sometimes the act of living itself. And [there is] a
proverb:
"a ready-kneaded life," in reference to those who are living prosperously in an extravagant and sweet life. And [there is] a[nother]
proverb:
"a …
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175
Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
Likewise in Apostolius 4.75. Hesychius (beta312) and Appendix
Proverbiorum
1.49 provide more detail: this
proverbial
expression was reportedly inscribed on a votive offering in the temple of Hera on Samos. All four sources allude …
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Βησᾶς ἕστηκεν οἷον ἀχανής
Besas stands as if gaping
Versions of this
proverb
appear in several of the paroemiographic collections e.g. Appendix
Proverbiorum
1.54 ( = E.L. Leutsch and F.G. Schneidewin, Paroemiographi Graeci, vol. 1, appendix, p. 387, no. 54), where the verb …
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212
Βαίτη
skin-coat, skin-tent
… summer and in winter, [is] a good thing," [sc. a
proverbial
saying] in reference to something suitable for use.
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δ
674
Διάνοια Εὔριπος
a thought [like the] Euripos
[sc. A
proverbial
phrase] in reference to people people who change very easily and are unstable.
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189
Βατράχειον
frog-green
… to Aristophanes, Knights 1406, where the word occurs. [3] This
(proverbial?)
phrase is not otherwise attested.
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197
Βδέλλα
leech
Proverbs
30:15 and scholia.
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589
Διακόνιον
diakonion, flat-cake
… and notes that the 'in reference to' idiom suggests something
proverbial.
[5] A Macedonian lexicographer of the third century BCE (cited in the Suda here only). See generally L. Cohn, "Amerias," RE 1 (1894) …
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