σικυών
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 cucumber-bed, Eust.291.36, etc. II as pr. n. Σῐκῠών, ῶνος, ἡ, Sicyon, Pi.N.9.53, etc.; also ὁ, X.HG4.2.14, 7.2.11; gender indeterm. in Il.2.572, 23.299; as Adj., γῆ Σ. Arist. Fr.640.26:—regul. Adj. Σῐκῠώνιος, α, ον, Sicyonian, Th.1.28, etc.; Σ. ἔλαιον Sicyonian olive oil, Dsc.1.30, Gal.11.739 (but σικυώνιον ἔλαιον oil of σίκυς, Aët.1.122, Alex.Trall.Febr.3, Paul.Aeg.3.77, 7.20); Σῐκῠωνικός or σῐκῠ-ιακός, ή, όν, Callix.2, Ath.6.271d.—Adv. Σῐκῠώνοθε, of or from Sicyon, Pi.N.9.1.—The people themselves called their town Σεκυών, A.D.Adv.144.20, cf. Σεκυώνιοι GDI2581.273 (Delph., ii B.C.); its oldest name was Αἰγιαλεῖς and then Μηκώνη, acc. to Str. 8.6.25.
