Ὀρχομενός

Notes

1. A thoroughly puzzling entry. The headword looks like a participle, except for the accent, but as it does not fit with any attested verb, it is presumably a proper noun. Several individuals named Orchomenos↗ appear in Greek mythology (e.g. one of the sons of Thyestes); and cities called Orchomenos↗ were located in Boeotia and Arcadia. Hesychius omicron1380 has this headword with the gloss po/lis *boiwti/as, h(\n *minu/eion↗ kalou=sin ("a city of Boeotia, which they call Minyan"; prompted by Homer, Iliad 2.511), and the Etymologicum Magnum glosses similarly. However, none of that comes near to explaining the present Christian-inspired gloss, which has already appeared at epsiloniota 42 (and cf. a fragment of Photius' Commentary on Paul's 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, "the temple of God and the temple of idols").