[A proverb] applied to those promising that something will turn out fortunate and celebrated.
Cf.
Zenobius 4.34, which gives the context: after his exile from
Athens (360/1 BCE), Kallistratos (cf.
delta 454,
sigma 77,
sigma 1625) persuades 'the Athenians' -- with the help of this phrase -- that they should found a settlement on the attractive, mineral-rich mainland opposite the N Aegean island of
Thasos (
theta 58,
theta 59). But something seems amiss here. While the Athenians' own interest in the area is clear and of long standing (see esp.
Thucydides 1.100ff), what Kallistratos did in c.360 was to help the Thasians themselves found the mainland settlement later known as Krenides, and later still Philippoi. Cf.
Isocrates 8.24, and see generally N.G.L.Hammond and G.T.Griffith,
A History of Macedonia, ii (Oxford 1979) 187-8.
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