στία
οὐκ ἂν λάβοις παρὰ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος → you can't take from one who doesn't have, you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood from a stone, you can't get blood out of a stone
English (LSJ)
[ῑ], ἡ,
A small stone, pebble, ἐσχάρη . . στιάων an altar made of pebbles, A.R.2.1172 (Sicyonian acc. to Sch.): also στῖον, τό, Hp. ap. Gal.19.140. [ῑ: written στηά and στηάς in Hsch., who adds the senses στενοχωρία and λιθοκονία: pl. στεῖαι acc. to Sch.Cyrill.in Reitzenstein Ind.Lect.Rost.1890/91.8: perh. cogn. with στέαρ.]
German (Pape)
[Seite 942] ἡ, wie ψῆφος, Steinchen, bes. in Flüssen, Kiesel, Schol. Ap. Rh. 2, 1176, auch στῖον, VLL. (s. πολύστιος). Die Unkenntniß der Länge des ι machte, daß Sp. στεία, στεῖον schrieben. Es ist vielleicht nur mundartlich von ψιά verschieden.
