ὀφίδιον
From LSJ
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)
τό, Dim. of ὄφις, IG22.1533.16 (iv B. C.), 1472.17 (iv B. C.), 7.303.71 (Oropus, iii B. C.), 11(2).161 B 50 (Delos, iii B. C.), Thphr. HP9.15.2, Apollon.Mir.12: written ὀφείδιον in codd. of Arist.HA 607a30, Str.15.1.45.
II a kind of fish, Plin.HN32.149; cf. ὄφις: ποιὸς ἰχθῦς, Hsch. (Prob. ὀφιδιον, contr. fr. ὀφῑ-ῐδιον.]
German (Pape)
[Seite 426] τό, dim. von ὄφις, auch ὀφείδιον.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὀφίδιον: [ῑ], τό, ὑποκορ. τοῦ ὄφις, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 1570b. 18, πρβλ. ὀφείδιον, καὶ ἴδε Meisterh 42.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ὀφίδιον: τό = ὀφείδιον.
