ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, different as chalk from cheese, apples and oranges, like apples and oranges, by as much as cardamom is different from figs
adj.
Of persons, sparing: Ar. and P. φειδωλός (also with gen. following). Temperate: P. and V. μέτριος, σώφρων. Of things, spare: P. and V. σπάνιος, V. σπανιστός.
