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the sedition. 2.91 An utter evil: applied to those suffering some great evil. 2.92 The vote of Zeus: applied to things sacred and inviolable. 2.93 Through the midst both famine flowed and most excellently is it destroyed: when the starving person perishes, the famine also perishes.

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2.94t More noble than Codrus. 2.95 Dark in the light, but in the darkness

luminous. 2.96 The sleep of Epimenides: applied to those who sleep a lot; for he slept for fifty years. 2.97 You have consulted the oracle of Trophonius: applied to the sullen and pale. 2.98 You run away in the threshing-floor: that is, you hide. applied to those who are unable to be hidden. 2.99 Let him be a steward; but for the rest, if you wish, a dog: applied to those who prosper beyond their worth, and especially eunuchs. 2.100 A yoke could be made from any wood: applied to things of cheap appearance, but necessary for use. 3.1 To the old mangers: applied to those who have come to the state from which they had previously fallen. 3.2 You see three in two: applied to those who see one thing for another. 3.3 To escape like a partridge: ** and to get away. applied to those escaping the hunters. 3.4 You make an elephant out of a fly: applied to those who exaggerate small things in speech. 3.5 I will be a bath-attendant for myself: that is, I will serve myself. 3.6 You have come feebly to the feeble: applied to those who suffer similar things. 3.7 A net catches a sleeping person: applied to the fortunate. 3.8 Even an ant has bile: that one must not despise even the small. 3.9 To drink from a perforated cup: applied to those deceived by friends. 3.10 You hide yourself in honey: applied to those living together in pleasures. 3.11 He sleeps the sleep of Endymion: applied to those who sleep a lot. 3.12 He puts on the lion's skin. 3.13 The trap has caught the mouse: applied to those who are deservedly caught. 3.14 I am at a crossroads of thoughts: applied to those who are at a loss. 3.15 Drawing a cloud to himself like the Caecias wind. 3.16 To fight dogs in a well. 3.17 You flay the flayed: applied to those toiling in vain. but better applied to those who harm people in misfortune. 3.18 You wear out your cloak in summer: applied to those not using necessities at the proper time. 3.19 An uninitiated Hermes. 3.20 Where the wind allows neither to sail nor to stay: applied to those who have fallen into difficult circumstances. 3.21 An elephant does not care about a mouse. 3.22 You have your foot out of the mud: applied to those who are out of danger. 3.23 It hangs by a hair: applied to those in danger; similar to "On a razor's edge." 3.24 Noble from the purse: applied to those honored because of wealth. 3.25 Spear upon spear: they say an old woman said this when pawning a spear with a helmet-maker. 3.26 Goats are free from the plow: applied to those freed from some burden. 3.27 You spit into your bosom: that is, you boast. 3.28 Pottery in a pithos: applied to those not progressing in their studies in the proper way. 3.29 To dance in the dark: applied to those toiling without a witness. 3.30 It has come to the ears of a god: applied to great matters. 3.31 One man is no man. 3.32 Counsel in the night: since the night gives freedom of speech. 3.33 The wolf into the traps: applied to those who seize, but are held fast. 3.34 You have reveled among bees: applied to those being harmed all at once. 3.35 In the knees of five judges: for in the old days five judges judged the comic poets; or because they held on their knees what is now written in a tablet. 3.36 From the mouth of a wolf: applied to those unexpectedly receiving something from certain people. 3.37 He differs in nothing from an elephant: applied to the insensitive. 3.38 You are going to Troezen: applied to those having a lack of beards. For Pogon is a harbor of Troezen. 3.39 A deer-like man: the coward. 3.40 More changeable than a cothurnus: the cothurnus is a type of footwear, fitting both feet. 3.41 To be poor on land rather than to be rich while sailing. 3.42 The gifts of enemies are no-gifts and not beneficial: applied to unprofitable gifts. 3.43 Let the die be cast: applied to those who risk danger. 3.44 Even a lark sings among the unmusical. 3.45 The danger in a Carian: that is; not about great

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τὴν στάσιν. 2.91 ∆ιωλύγιον κακόν: ἐπὶ τῶν μέγα τι κακὸν ὑφισταμένων. 2.92 ∆ιὸς ψῆφος: ἐπὶ τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ ἀθίκτων. 2.93 ∆ιὰ μέσου καὶ λιμὸς ἔῤῥει καὶ κάλλιστ' ἀπόλ λυται: φθαρέντος τοῦ λιμώττοντος καὶ ὁ λιμὸς ἀπόλλυται.

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2.94t Εὐγενέστερος Κόδρου. 2.95 Ἐν μὲν τῷ φάει σκοτεινὸς, ἐν δὲ τῷ σκότει

φαεινός. 2.96 Ἐπιμενίδου ὕπνος: ἐπὶ τῶν πολλὰ κοιμωμένων· πεντήκοντα γὰρ ἔτη ἐκάθευδεν. 2.97 Ἐς Τροφωνίου μεμάντευσαι: ἐπὶ τῶν σκυθρω πῶν καὶ ὠχρῶν. 2.98 Ἐν ἅλῳ δρασκάζεις: ἤτοι κρύπτῃ. ἐπὶ τῶν μὴ δυ ναμένων λαθεῖν. 2.99 Ἔστω ταμίας· τἄλλα δ' εἰ βούλει κύων: ἐπὶ τῶν παρ' ἀξίαν εὐημερούντων καὶ μάλιστα εὐνούχων. 2.100 Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλου κύφων ἂν γένοιτο: ἐπὶ τῶν τὸ εἶδος εὐτελῶν, εἰς χρείαν δὲ ἀναγκαίων. 3.1 Εἰς ἀρχαίας φάτνας: ἐπὶ τῶν ἐλθόντων εἰς ἅπερ πρότερον ὄντες ἐξέπεσον. 3.2 Ἐν δυοῖν τρία βλέπεις: ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλα ἀντ' ἄλλων ὁρώντων. 3.3 Ἐκπερδικίσαι: ** καὶ ἐκκλῖναι. ἐπὶ τῶν διαδιδρα σκόντων τοὺς θηρευτάς. 3.4 Ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖς: ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ μικρὰ ἐπαιρόντων τῷ λόγῳ. 3.5 Ἐμαυτῷ βαλανεύσω: ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἐμαυτῷ διακονήσω. 3.6 Εἰς ἀσθενοῦντας ἀσθενῶς ἐλήλυθας: ἐπὶ τῶν ὅμοια πασχόντων. 3.7 Εὕδοντι κύρτος αἱρεῖ: ἐπὶ τῶν εὐτυχούντων. 3.8 Ἔνεστι καὶ μύρμηκι χολή: ὅτι μηδὲ τοῦ μικροῦ δεῖν καταφρονεῖν. 3.9 Ἐκ τετρημένης κύλικος πιεῖν: ἐπὶ τῶν ἐψευσμέ νων φίλων. 3.10 Ἐν μέλιτι σαυτὸν κατακρύπτεις: ἐπὶ τῶν συζών των ἡδυπαθείαις. 3.11 Ἐνδυμίωνος ὕπνον ὑπνώττει: ἐπὶ τῶν πολλὰ κοιμωμένων. 3.12 Ἐνδύεται τὴν λεοντῆν. 3.13 Εἴληφεν ἡ παγὶς τὸν μῦν: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀξίως ἁλισκο μένων. 3.14 Ἐν τριόδῳ εἰμὶ λογισμῶν: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀπορούντων. 3.15 Ἕλκων ἐφ' ἑαυτὸν ὥσπερ ὁ καικίας νέφος. 3.16 Ἐν φρέατι κυσὶ μάχεσθαι. 3.17 Ἐκδεδαρμένον δαίρεις: ἐπὶ τῶν μάτην πονούν των. βέλτιον δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν κακούντων τοὺς ἐν συμφοραῖς. 3.18 Ἐν θέρει τὴν χλαῖναν κατατρίβεις: ἐπὶ τῶν μὴ καθ' ὥραν τοῖς ἀναγκαίοις χρωμένων. 3.19 Ἑρμῆς ἀμύητος. 3.20 Ἔνθα οὔτε πλεῖν ἄνεμος οὔτε μίμνειν ἐᾷ: ἐπὶ τῶν δυσχρήστοις περιπεσόντων. 3.21 Ἐλέφας μυὸς οὐκ ἀλεγίζει. 3.22 Ἐκτὸς πηλοῦ πόδα ἔχεις: ἐπὶ τῶν ἔξω κινδύνων ὄντων. 3.23 Ἐκ τριχὸς κρέμαται: ἐπὶ τῶν κινδυνευόντων· ὅμοιον τῷ Ἐπὶ ξυροῦ. 3.24 Εὐγενὴς ἐκ βαλαντίου: ἐπὶ τῶν διὰ πλοῦτον τιμωμένων. 3.25 Ἔγχος ἐπὶ τῷ ἔγχει: γραῦν φασι τοῦτο εἰπεῖν κα πήλῳ ἐνεχυράζουσαν ἔγχος. 3.26 Ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρου: ἐπὶ τῶν βάρους τινὸς ἀπηλλαγμένων. 3.27 Εἰς κόλπον πτύεις: ἀντὶ τοῦ, μεγαλοῤῥημονεῖς. 3.28 Ἐν πίθῳ τὴν κεραμείαν: ἐπὶ τῶν μὴ κατὰ τρό πον τοῖς μαθήμασι προβαινόντων. 3.29 Ἐν σκότει ὀρχεῖσθαι: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀμαρτύρως μο χθούντων. 3.30 Εἰς θεοῦ ὦτα ἦλθεν: ἐπὶ μεγάλων πραγμάτων. 3.31 Εἷς ἀνὴρ οὐδεὶς ἀνήρ. 3.32 Ἐν νυκτὶ βουλήν: ἐπειδὴ ἡ νὺξ παῤῥησίαν δίδωσι. 3.33 Εἰς πάγας ὁ λύκος: ἐπὶ τῶν ἁρπαζόντων μὲν, κατασχεθέντων δέ. 3.34 Εἰς μελίττας ἐκώμασας: ἐπὶ τῶν κακουμένων ἀθρόως. 3.35 Ἐν πέντε κριτῶν γούνασι: τὸ γὰρ παλαιὸν πέντε κριταὶ ἔκρινον τοὺς κωμικούς· ἢ ὅτι ἐν γόνασιν εἶχον, ἃ νῦν εἰς γραμματεῖον ἐγγράφεται. 3.36 Ἐκ λύκου στόματος: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνελπίστως παρὰ τινῶν τι λαμβανόντων. 3.37 Ἐλέφαντος οὐδὲν διαφέρει: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀναισθήτων. 3.38 Εἰς Τροιζῆνα βαδίζεις: ἐπὶ τῶν ἐχόντων σπάνιν γενείων. Πώγων γάρ ἐστι λιμὴν Τροιζήνιος. 3.39 Ἐλάφειος ἀνήρ: ὁ δειλός. 3.40 Εὐμεταβολώτερος κοθόρνου: ὑποδήματος εἶδος ὁ κόθορνος, ἐφαρμόζων τοῖς δυσὶ ποσίν. 3.41 Ἐν γῇ πένεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ πλουτοῦντα πλεῖν. 3.42 Ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα κοὐκ ὀνήσιμα: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀλυσιτελῶν δώρων. 3.43 Ἐῤῥίφθω κύβος: ἐπὶ τῶν ῥιψοκινδυνούντων. 3.44 Ἐν ἀμούσοις καὶ κόρυδος φθέγγεται. 3.45 Ἐν Καρὶ τὸν κίνδυνον: ἀντὶ τοῦ· οὐ περὶ μεγά