ἀνιάω
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
[ᾰν], S.Aj.266, etc.: 3sg. impf. ἠνία ib.273, Pl.Grg.502a: fut. ἀνιάσω [ᾱς] X.An.3.3.19, Ep.
A ἀνιήσω Hom.: aor. ἠνίᾱσα And.1.50, etc.; Dor. ἀνίᾱσα Theoc.2.23: pf. ἠνίᾱκα Hld.7.22:—Pass., ἀνιῶμαι Od.15.335, etc., Ion. 3pl. opt. ἀνιῴατο Hdt.4.130: 3pl. impf. ἠνιῶντο X.Cyr.6.3.10: fut. ἀνιάσομαι Ar.Fr.488.11, X.Mem.1.1.8 (ἀνιαθήσομαι only in Gal.Anim.Pass.9); Ep. 2sg. ἀνιήσεαι Thgn.991: aor. ἠνιάθην X.HG6.4.20; Ion. -ήθην Il.2.291: pf. ἠνΐημαι Mosch. 4.3: the aor. Med. ἀνιάσασθαι is v.l. for ἀνιᾶσθαι in Gal.UP6.16: (ἀνία) . [ῑ always in Hom. and S.; ῐ in Thgn. and late Poets; ῐ in Ar. l. c., etc.]:—commoner form of the Ep. ἀνιάζω, grieve, distress, c. acc. pers., ἀνιήσει . . υἷας Ἀχαιῶν Od.2.115, cf. 20.178; μηδὲ φίλους ἀνία Thgn.1032; φίλους ἀνιῶν S.Aj.266: c. acc. rei, ἀνιᾷ μου τὰ ὦτα Pl.Grg.485b: c. dupl. acc., ὁ δρῶν σ' ἀνιᾷ τὰς φρένας S.Ant.319: c. acc. pers. et neut. Adj., τί ταῦτ' ἀνιᾷς με; ib.550; παῦρ' ἀνιάσας, πόλλ' εὐφράνας (sc. ὑμᾶς) Ar.Pax764; ἠνίασά σε οὐδὲν πώποτε And. 1.50:—Pass., to be grieved, distressed, c. dat. pers. vel rei, ἀνιᾶται παρεόντι he is vexed by one's presence, Od.15.335; ἀ. ὀρυμαγδῷ 1.133; σύν σοι . . παθόντι κακῶς ἀνιώμεθα Thgn.655; πάσχων ἀνιήσεαι Id.991; ἀ. ὑπομιμνῄσκων Lys.13.43; δαπανὼντα ἀνιᾶσθαι X.Cyr.8.3.44; περί τινος Ar.Lys.593: c. neut. Adj., τοῦτ' ἀνιῶμαι πάλαι I have long been vexed at tnis, S.Ph.906; πολλὰ μὲν αὐτοὺς ἀνιωμένους, πολλὰ δὲ ἀνιῶντας τοὺς οἰκέτας X.Oec.3.2: abs., οὐδ' ἂν . . ἀνιῷτο Thgn.1205: esp. in aor. part. Pass. ἀνιηθείς disheartened, Od.3.117, Il.2.291.
