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[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who are successful due to wealth.[1] Aristodemos says [this]. And Alcaeus mentions Aristodemus: "for as Aristodamos once in Sparta", he says, "spoke a speech that was not helpless: 'money, money;' and so forth."[2]
And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: "I don't know what the affair [xrh=ma] is doing to me. -- So consider: while it is possible for you and all these men to be rich, [you are somehow hemmed in] by those who are always catering to the masses."[3]
Sophocles [writes]: "'what matter [xrh=ma] do you attend to, Ajax? Why do you set out on this attempt neither summoned by messengers nor hearing any trumpet? In fact, the whole army is sleeping now.' But he said curtly to me, 'Woman, silence is an ornament for women.' And I understood and stopped; but he rushed out alone."[4]

*xrh/mata xrh/mat' a)nh/r, penixro\s d' ou)de/pot' e)sqlo/s: e)pi\ tw=n dia\ plou=ton eu)hmerou/ntwn. *)aristo/dhmo/s fhsi. me/mnh- tai tou= *)aristodh/mou kai\ *)alkai=os: w(s ga\r dh/ pot' *)aristo/damon fasi\n e)n *spa/rta| ou)k a)pa/lamnon lo/gon ei)pei=n, xrh/mata, xrh/mata: kai\ ta\ e(ch=s. kai\ au)=qis *)aristofa/nhs: ou)k oi)=d' o(/ ti xrh=ma/ me poiei=s. ske/yai toi/nun, w(s e)co/n soi ploutei=n kai\ toi=sin a(/pasin u(po\ tw=n a)ei\ dhmizo/ntwn. *sofoklh=s: ti/ xrh=ma dra=|s, *ai)=an; ti/ tw=|d' a)/klhtos ou)d' u(p' a)gge/lwn klhqei\s a)forma=|s pei=ran, ou)/te tou klu/wn sa/lpiggos; a)lla\ nu=n ge pa=s eu(/dei strato/s. o( d' ei)=pe pro/s me baia/, a)ei\ d' u(mnou/mena, gu/nai, gunaici\ ko/smon h( sigh\ fe/rei. ka)gw\ maqou=s' e)/lhca: o( d' e)ssu/qh mo/nos.

The first part of the headword phrase -- again at chi 478 -- appears in Pindar, Isthmians 2.17 (web address 1), but the whole phrase is a version of Alcaeus fr. 360 Lobel-Page, of which a summary version is given below.
[1] cf. Apostolius 18.32 and other paroemiographers, and see generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1783.
[2] A summary of Alcaeus fr. 360 Lobel-Page. The material from the beginning of the entry to this point is taken from the scholia to Pindar, Isthmians 2.17 (cf. above).
[3] Aristophanes, Wasps 697-9 (web address 2); see also pi 1450. This quotation and the one from Sophocles which follow seem to be tenuously connected with the rest of the entry. The only association is that they contain instances of the word xrh=ma (see chi 473, chi 474, and chi 475) of which xrh/mata ("money") is the plural.
[4] Sophocles, Ajax 288-294 (web address 3). Tecmessa is speaking. See also beta 210, omicron 970, and pi 1450.

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