[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to old men.
*(ra=|o/n tis tou\s o)do/ntas h)ri/qmhsen h)\ tou\s daktu/lous: e)pi\ gero/ntwn.
The headword phrase, unglossed, is also in
Photius (rho51 Theodoridis).
Deriving from a courtroom witticism in
Lysias,
In reply to Aischines the Socratic. See the long extract preserved in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.611E-612F (13.95 Kaibel), at 612F, of a 70-year-old
woman there, whose teeth were fewer than the fingers of one hand.
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