The wrath of a father, and the flame of straw, The rainbow, and substances endowed with mind, Judas, and a bad navigator, Youth, and flowers,
PROVERBS CITED BY GREGORY
The applause and noise of an arrow without a track, sound of clapping hands, A people bereft of the word of God, and an infant weaned from the breast, Lips, and roses, The reader of the ancients, and the industry of the bee, The tongue, and a fountain, The tongue, and a branch, The tongue, and a running horse, and a most ready weapon, The tongue compressed, and an oblique branch redirected to the straight path, The tongue, and a flame, and a river,
M Evils, wild beasts, the sea, war, fire, Evils, and the sick, birds pierced by the talons of a hawk, An irascible husband, and a beast to be given by hand and words, The greatest, and a dog, For the greatest [people], speeches are like a lyre to an ass, and waves to oxen, and a yoke to sea-creatures, The mind, and a string, Mercy, and red-hot iron, which needs not many blows of a stone for the fire within to be brought into the open, Deeply afflicted by miseries, and the rack, unaccustomed to terrors, and throwing off its rider, Disease, and a chain, A painted woman, and a peacock, A woman, and a dragon, and an asp, A painted woman, and an idol, A painted woman, and a jackdaw clothed in strange feathers, The world, and dust, clouds, storm, ashes, air,
O Wealth, and the waves of the sea,
P Speeches to be gathered with caution, and thorns to be avoided among roses, A good father, and an eagle, The danger of one's neighbor, and a nearby fire, and a pine tree next to a broken cedar, and nearby strife, Agitated by perturbations, and a man who, having left a lion, runs into a bear, and fleeing this, is struck by a serpent, Innate piety, and the ardor of fire in stones,
The applause and noise of an arrow without a track, sound of clapping hands, A people bereft of the word of God, and an infant weaned from the breast, A leader with bad ministers, and a steersman with bad rowers, A president with a good minister, like a helmsman with a good bowsman, Propensity to vice, and the course of a river, The just and the unjust, and gold and stones, Feigned beauty, and a net spread for a flock of birds,
S Foolish speeches, and the sound of the sea pressing upon the shores, not making the meadows fertile, A sentiment that is kept silent, and a rose covered by its calyx; when it is brought forth, it is like a rose pouring out sweetness, and revealing beauty, A suicide, and a horse carrying its foot beyond the boundary, A proud man, and a dragon,
T Time, and a certain cloud, to which one must yield, Time, and tokens, Earthly things, and tokens, The Trinity, and the sun with its rays, and two rivers flowing from one source, The Trinity, and a torch, and a word, and a lightning bolt,
V Virginity, and a balance, Virginity, and a pearl, and Lucifer, and a dove, and a lily, and tranquility in the sea, Virginity, and a painter, A virgin, and a rose among thorns, A virgin loving purity, and a polypus clinging to a rock, or a bird in its nest, Virtue among tribulations, and a rose among thorns, Life, and navigation, Life, and a lightning bolt, Life, and withering grass, feigned happiness, an ill-impressed footprint, Life, and a hoop, Life, and smoke, or a dream, or a flower, Life, and market days, Life, and the Euripus, The time of life, and struggle, The prosperity of life, and oxen, and a hydropic person,
PROVERBS
Which St. Gregory Nazianzen cited wittily and aptly.
Ethiopians among white people is a wondrous thing, A bald man should not contend face-to-face with a ram, A cicada. One must know whether cicadas are nourished by dew alone, To see the lame running, Not to provoke the hornet against oneself, To shear the hair of the dead, Swans will sing when the jackdaws have kept silent, Said and done, And a smith is annoying to a smith, as a potter to a potter, The course of a river is not to be restrained by force, Gades cannot be crossed beyond the sea, Jackdaw keeps company with jackdaw, A different height for jackdaws, another for eagles, Jackdaws exploring the flight of eagles, To milk he-goats, Indians. Not to care more about business than about those who are conducted among the Indians,