μυλών
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)
ῶνος, ὁ,
A mill-house, Th.6.22, Inscr.Délos445.22 (ii B.C.); εἰς μ. καταβαλεῖν to condemn [a slave] to work the mill, E.Cyc.240; εἰς μ. ἐμπεσεῖν Lys.1.18; ἐν τῷ μ. εἶναι D.45.33, cf. Din.1.23; μ. καὶ πέδαι Men.Her.3; ἄξιοι δεσμωτηρίου καὶ μυλῶνος Ph.1.623; Κηφισόδοτος τὰς τριήρεις ἐκάλει μυλῶνας ποικίλους painted mills, Arist.Rh.1411a24. (Sts. parox. in codd., as Arist. l. c., Ph. l. c., Luc.Vit.Auct.27, Poll.7.19, but cf. Hdn. Gr.1.30.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 217] ῶνος, ὁ (S. Emp. adv. astrol. 94 steht εἰς μύλωνας gegen Arcad. 12, 25), der Ort, wo die Mühle ist, das Mühlenhaus, Din. 1, 23; σιτοποιοὺς ἐκ τῶν μυλώνων πρὸς μέρος ἠναγκασμένους ἐμμίσθους, Thuc. 6, 22; εἰς μυλῶνα ἐμπεσεῖν, Lys. 1, 18; καταβάλλειν εἰς μυλῶνα, in die Mühle schicken und dort arbeiten lassen, gewöhnliche Strafe der Sklaven, Sp., wie Luc. Vit. Auct. 27; nach Arist. rhet. 3, 10 nannte ein Redner die Trieren ποικίλους μυλῶνας.
