τέραμνον
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)
or τέρεμνον, τό, a word used esp. by E., but only in pl. and always (except once,
A τέραμνά τ' οἴκων Hipp.418) in lyr. passages, chamber, house, like μέλαθρα, τ. ἀπὸ νυμφιδίων Hipp.768; παστάδων ὑπὲρ τ. Or.1371; Περγάμων . . καταίθεται τ. Tr.1296; ἐξ Ἀΐδα τεράμνων Alc.457; ἐπὶ Πυθίοις τ. Hipp.536; ὑπὲρ τέραμνα Ph. 333: dat. sg. τεράμνῳ Maiist.12: also in late Prose, τέρεμνα Artem. 2.10. [-εμνα Or.1371 codd. ALP, Ph.333 codd. VA, Hipp.418 codd. exc. L, which has -α-: Maiist. l.c. corroborates the spelling -αμνον.]
τέραμνον· ἁπαλόν, ἑψανόν, Phot., Suid.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1092] τό, = Folgdm; Eur. Alc. 459 Phoen. 335; οἰνοπλῆγα, Ant. Sid. 29 (IX, 323).
