Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
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In the sprouting of the ear: V. κάλυκος ἐν λοχεύμασι (Aesch., Ag. 1392).
About the time of the sprouting of the ear: P. περὶ σίτου ἐκβολήν (Thuc. 4, 1).