Pêleôs machaira: paroimia: tautên anagraphei kai Aristophanês houtôs: mega phronei mallon ê Pêleus epi têi machairai. hê edokei sôphrosunês geras hêphaistoteuktos, hên eilêphei machairan ho Pêleus.
See
mu 393 (and for 'knife' see generally
mu 302). Similar but longer entry in
Photius'
Lexicon (pi851 Theodoridis).
[1] cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 4.57 and other paroemiographers.
[2] This phrase, also in
Photius, presumably means 'as well as others'. (NB: what follows is a fragment of
Aristophanes of
Byzantium's
Proverbs. His namesake the comic poet mentions the proverb, at
Clouds 1063, but does not quote it in this form.)
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