ALCMAN 146 Seholiast.on Aristides On behu/7 of the Four Great Athenyiries : The Cretan and the sea: Proverbial of these who know but pretend they do not: it means ‘the islander does not know the sea”. . The proverb also has this form: * The Sicilian and the sea’. . [t is mentioned by the lyric poet Ajeman.? 147 Etrinolegiconen Magnum: aCe . . . Herodian in his treatise Ue Ipflerions declares that it is derived from ayzos, ‘guilt or expiation, - ἀγίζω lw svmewpe aCe . . . and why he says so. is clear from Aletmian’s use of ἀγίσδεο for a leo stand thou in awe 148 Hesychius Glossary: βλήρ' bait ; aml another word for it is el#ua; the word occurs in Aleman. 149 Etymologicum Magnum : γεργύρα : underground ; properly thet which carries off rainwater: see the note on σόνγυρα τ but Aleman uses the e-forin, rere! 150 Bekker Inedita: The word δοάν, for a long while, im Aleman has an acute acvent on the last sviable, arriving πὶ this form thus: δήν, dav, dody.? lof. Strab. 10. 481, Prem. 1. 151 where. however, σε is eg as mentioning the proverb: 2 αἵ Dek. men. 1. 233. 3 of. Jo. Alex. 42, Bek. An. 2. 570 129 WoL. | kK