παροιμία

paroimiva paroimiva,
paroimiva",
hJ (
parav by, aside from (cf.
parav, IV. 2), and
oi\mo" way), properly, a saying out of the usual course or deviating from the usual manner of speaking (cf. Suidas 654, 15; but Hesychius under the word, et al., `a saying heard by the wayside' (
parav, IV. 1), i. e. a current or trite saying, proverb; cf. Curtius, sec. 611; Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word), hence,1. a clever and sententious saying, a proverb (Aeschylus Ag. 264; Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, others; examples from Philo are given by Hilgenfeld, Die Evangelien, p. 292f (as de ebriet. sec. 20; de Abr. sec. 40; de vit. Moys. i. sec. 28; ii. sec. 5; de exsecrat. sec. 6); for lv;m; in ; the Alexandrian LXX manuscript; , etc.):
tov
th'"
paroimiva", what is in the proverb (Lucian, dial. mort. 6, 2; 8, 1), .2. any dark saying which shadows forth some didactic truth, especially a symbolic or figurative saying:
paroimivan
levgein, ;
ejn
paroimivai"
lalei'n, ibid. 25; "speech or discourse in which a thing is illustrated by the use of similes and comparisons; an allegory, i. e. extended and elaborate metaphor": .*