σάνδυξ
δρυὸς πεσούσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλεύεται → when the oak falls, everyone cuts wood | when an oak has fallen, every man gathers wood | on the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood | when an oak has fallen, every man becomes a woodcutter | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his strength | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his power | when the tree is fallen, every man goes to it with his hatchet
English (LSJ)
υκος, ἡ,
A a bright red colour, also called ἀρμένιον, Str.11.14.9 (prob. cj.); obtained by heating ψιμύθιον ( = cerussa), Dsc.5.88, cf. Plin.HN35.40; though a like colour was made from a plant of the same name, red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus, Sosib. 21, Verg.Ecl.4.45, Plin. l.c., Lyd.Mag.3.64. 2 pl., flesh-coloured women's garments dyed with this colour, in Lydia, ibid. 3 a kind of salve, prob. a pink mixture of zinc oxide and carbonate, Dsc. l.c., Gal.12.244, Hsch. II casket, Id. [ū in genit., Prop.2.19.81; but [ucaron] in Grattius Cyn.86.] (Assyr. sâmtu, sându 'red stone', prob. cinnabar.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 861] υκος, ἡ, auch σάνδιξ, ὁ, 1) Mennig od. eine dem Mennig ähnliche Farbe, lat. sandyx usta, καὶ ἀρμένιον καλοῦσι χρῶμα ὅμοιον κάλχῃ, Strab. 11, 14, 9. – 2) eine Pflanze, mit deren Saft Leinwand hellroth gefärbt wurde, Hesych.; vgl. Voß Virg. Ecl. 4, 45 p. 208. – Bei den Lydern hießen σάνδυκες mit Sandyx gefärbte seine, durchsichtige Frauenkleider von Leinwand. – [Υ ist bei Propert. 2, 25, 45 lang, bei Grat. Cyneg. 86 kurz.]
