ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, different as chalk from cheese, apples and oranges, like apples and oranges, by as much as cardamom is different from figs

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ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, lit. "by as much as cardamum is different from figs" (Heniochus, 4th cent. BCE comic playwright, frag. 4.2)