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Notes

1. = Synagoge 779; Photius, Lexicon pi1504 Theodoridis; cf. Moeris pi67, Hesychius pi4283, pi4383. The headword is nominative singular of this feminine noun. In his edition of Hesychius Latte suggests Homer, Iliad 23.669, and Exodus 21:18 LXX as possible sources, both of which exhibit the word in the dative case. The former uses it in the sense of 'contest of fists' (i.e. boxing) and the latter with the meaning 'fist'. The first gloss here, 'wrestling', thus seems idiosyncratic, as there is normally a distinction made between the two popular forms of contest.
   cf. delta 807, pi 11, etc.