Ἀντωπεῖ

Notes (5)

1. cf. generally alpha 2756.
1. 1Same glossing in other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere. (The only extant instance outside lexicography occurs in Procopius of Gaza's Commentaries on Isaiah: 'the eagle ... faces the flashes of the sun'.) ↩
2. 2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
3. 3Quoted from somewhere, probably Oppian, Halieutica 5.7; cf. the scholia there. ↩
4. 4Agathias, Histories 1.15. This passage describes the futile battle of the Heruli (cf. epsilon 901, epsilon 3058) military commander, Fulcaris, aligned with the Romans, against a superior contingent of ambushing Franks at Parma↗ (in northern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 39 grid G4) during the Gothic War (535-554) in 553 CE; cf. Frendo (22-23). ↩
5. 5Greek Anthology 7.169.1-2 (author unknown), on a statue of a cow on a promontory overlooking the Bosporus (cf. beta 401, beta 402); see Page (371-374) and another extract from this epigram at beta 581. The context of the present excerpt is a Greek folk etymology of 'Bosporus', purporting it to be a portmanteau word from boo\s po/ros, e.g. 'Cow's Strait' or 'Oxford'; cf. Oppian Halieutica 1.617. However, neither the LSJ s.v. *bo/sporos (web address 1) nor, evidently, this epigram's author finds the etymology convincing.