=
Synagoge epsilon394 (=
Lexica Segueriana 202.23) and
Photius,
Lexicon delta805; cf.
Hesychius delta2547 (relating to
3 Maccabees 6.31
LXX).
This adjective -- here in either the masculine/feminine accusative singular or the neuter nominative accusative singular -- occurs in few writers (and commentaries):
scholia in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea 1126A.25 (also recorded in
Aspasius,
Commentaria 120.17), Leo Choerosphractes (see below), Basil of
Caesarea↗. Also in
Ammonius and Herennius, quoted by
Eustathius, perhaps via
Lexicon Gudianum, as adverbial form in
-tws.
The main meaning is always the one indicated in the present translation, in accordance with LSJ s.v. The passage in Leo Choerosphractes,
Chiliostichos theologia 11.12 (
kai\ ti/s prosoi/sei dusdia/llakton ma/xhn), if interpreted 'and who will bring a most mournful battle', could be the only extant instance of
dusdia/llaktos applied to the meaning of the gloss. In any event, a more likely explanation is to be found in a textual confusion between the headword here,
dusdia/llaktos, and
dusai/aktos (which is the headword of
delta 1608 and is glossed there with a form of the same word). This is all the more likely given the close similarity of the characters (
*D*U*S*D*I*A- vs.
*D*U*S*A*I*A-). Dindorf (followed by Theodoridis in his
Photius edition), obelizes the glossing word on this basis, but one might just as easily condemn the whole entry as a garbled doublet of
epsilon 1608.
1This gloss is an adjective (again at delta 1608) taken from tragedy, where it occurs twice: Sophocles, Antigone 1211, and Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 144; from qrh=nos 'lament', a funeral ritual, of which we have many examples from Homer onwards. As a lyric composition, the qrh=nos was developed by Simonides and Pindar and, later, in tragedy, where it acquired an important function.