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ν237Νεώσατεplough up!… entry elsewhere (references at Photius nu166 Theodoridis), and the imperative itself is extracted from the Septuagint (Jeremiah 4:3).Matched in noteshighshort
λ536Λικνοφόροςbearer of the winnowing-fan… (and Photius) s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 18.260. For the winnowing-fan itself cf. lambda 535.Matched in noteshighshort
ε943Ἐμβεβλημέναin-grown… Harpokration s.v. -- for Aristotle (fr. 274 Rose). The headword itself appears in Demosthenes 53.15, on which Harpok. was commenting.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2090ΚορινθικόνCorinthian… introduces two neologisms in these last lines: the headword adjective itself (on Corinthian bumper crops see alpha 1579 note) and a)filosta/xuos ("without corn", "cornless", i.e. "starving"); cf. Madden (175). [2] delta 1207.Matched in noteshighshort
α1001Ἀκρόδρυαfruits… to be the Septuagint: Song of Solomon 7.14). The noun itself, which can mean fruits in general as here, more exactly implies ones grown high up. [1] (sc. As opposed to the ground.) Glossing …Matched in noteshighshort
ι675Ἴσῳ ζυγῷwith an equal yoke… though see next note [1] Julian, Oration 8.244C. The phrase itself is first attested (and with the same application) in Theocritus, Idylls 12.15 (and glossed in the scholia to as o(moi/ws).Matched in noteshighshort
α371Ἀγροῦ πυγήrump of the country; fat of the land… alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from Old Attic Comedy: Archippus fr. 7 Demianczuk, now 29 Kassel-Austin. As to its glossing, the Suda's liparw=n (translated …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2320Κραναῶνof the rugged ones, of the Kranaoi… and Athens (LSJ s.v. kranao/s) --- typically describing the city itself, and not its inhabitants as here. The reference was translated into a mythical Kranaos as progenitor of Attica, as in Aeschylus, Eumenides 1011, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1276Μοσχίδια σύκωνyoung shootlets of figs… the nominative/vocative/ plural; see LSJ s.v. mosxi/dion. The headword phrase itself is an approximation of one in Aristophanes, Acharnians 996 (web address 1): the chorus-leader promises ne/a mosxi/dia suki/dwn (young shootlets of fig trees), …Matched in noteshighshort