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
[b]v. trans.[/b]
P. and V. συντέμνειν, συστέλλειν, κολούειν.
