= Synagoge epsilon850 and Photius, Lexicon epsilon1989, except that the Synagoge breaks off after the phrase shmai/nei de\ h( le/cis ("The expression means..."), and Photius omits even h( le/cis. The Suda is the only one of the three that preserves the explanation of the expression. See also Etymologicum Magnum 381.2-9.
The headword and the near-synonym which provide the twin headwords of the entry are both imperfect indicative active, third-person singulars; respectively, of the simple verb saleu/w (cf. sigma 52, sigma 53), which occurs in the last of the three quotations provided, and of its compound a)posaleu/w (cf. alpha 3514), which features in the first two.
[1] A fragment of Cassius Dio, of unknown provenance. (See Boissevain's edition 3.xvi. Part of the same quotation appears at tau 305.) The standard Greek idiom, used here, of a neuter plural subject with a singular verb cannot be reproduced in English; hence the translation ''were riding high'.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable; and the figurative sense of the word illustrated here is difficult to attest before the Byzantine period, outside lexicography. Compare Hesychius alpha6609; and see also (by way of contrast) alpha 3514.
[3] Aelian fr. 89 Hercher, 92e Domingo-Forasté (where 'riding on the ultimates' presumably means being close to death). Both editors collate this fragment with others from the Suda: kappa 156, tau 680, alpha 4173, beta 278, kappa 518, alpha 1851, omicron 274, epsilon 715 and epsilon 1143.