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1116
Δικτυωτή
latticed
[1] = Synagoge delta295, Photius delta611,
Hesychius
delta1838 (contrast delta1840). The headword is feminine nominative singular of the adjective diktuwto/s (derived from di/ktuon 'net'; cf. delta 1115), a form unattested prior to the Suda …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… city in the direction of Diomeia; cf. Alciphron 3.51.4 and
Hesychius,
delta839 s. v. *dhmi/asi pu/lais (Comica adespota fr. 805 Kock, now 309 K.-A.). [1] As usual, tribe allocations of these demes in the …
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1120
Ἐναποματτόμενοι
being imaged, receiving an impression
Same entry in
Hesychius
(epsilon2655) and elsewhere. The headword is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative plural, of the doubly compound verb e)napoma/ttw. (The glossing participle is active.) It must be quoted from somewhere; …
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23
Ἄβατον
inaccessible
… entry = Synagoge alpha5, and Photius, Lexicon alpha31 Theodoridis; cf.
Hesychius
alpha91 (where Latte confidently asserts that the headword is quoted from Euripides, Bacchae 10).
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2178
Ἀνδρόδομος
men's apartment
… (q.v.). The present entry (also in ps.-Zonaras) is paralleled in
Hesychius
alpha4747, who has the genitive plural a)ndrodo/mwn glossed with trikli/nwn. See also Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 1573.29 (commenting on Homer, Odyssey 7.122).
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2219
Ἀνεδείματο
built up again, rebuilt
… would not expect an intransitive verb. [2] Same gloss in
Hesychius
(and ps.-Zonaras). [3] Same gloss, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. See also epsilon 214.
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2550
Ἀνόκαιον
upper floor
… or similar entry in other lexica. According to ps.-Herodian and
Hesychius,
this is a variant of a)nw/gewn. cf. already alpha 1819, and again alpha 2582. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.29 (web address 1); Antiphanes fr. …
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35
Αἰγείρου θέα
poplar
… looks incomplete or otherwise faulty, but it is already in
Hesychius
alpha1695. Modern scholarship would suggest that the hieron in question is that of Lenaean Dionysus; see Pickard-Cambridge/Gould/Lewis 37-38. [3] See alphaiota 58.
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139
Αἴθουσα
corridor, loggia, portico, verandah
… Iliad 6.243, where ai)qou/sh|si occurs (see web address 1), and
Hesychius
s.v. ai)qou/sh|, quoted from Iliad 9.472.
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β
175
Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
Likewise in Apostolius 4.75.
Hesychius
(beta312) and Appendix Proverbiorum 1.49 provide more detail: this proverbial expression was reportedly inscribed on a votive offering in the temple of Hera on Samos. All four sources allude …
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492
Βωμός
altar; podium
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. claims the headword as quoted from Homer, Iliad 8.48 [2] For Crates (Krates) the Cynic philosopher see generally kappa 2341. One source-extract …
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588
Βυζάντιον
Byzantion, Byzantium
[1] For this second sentence cf. Cassius Dio 74.14.5-6;
Hesychius
of Miletus FGrH 390 F1 para.13; Cedrenus p. 442, 10-11 Bonn. [2] sigma 181.
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δ
328
Δείμωμεν
let us build
… subjunctive). Additionally, the Suda would have done better to follow
Hesychius
and the scholiast in glossing with oi)kodomh/swmen or oi)kodomh/somen.
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625
Διαλέγουσαν
enlarging, picking open
… for building walls: see epsilon 77 (and n.4 below). [3]
Hesychius
similarly defines diale/cai by dioru/cai (aorist active infinitives). [4] Adler notes Dindorf's view that this 'Thucydides' refers to another gloss, and certainly it …
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1596
Δυσαρεστούμενος
displeased
… headword proper. [1] = Synagoge delta389; Photius, Lexicon delta797; cf.
Hesychius
delta2526 and delta2527, where different forms of the participle are glossed similarly. [2] A close approximation of Diodorus Siculus 29.17.1 (via Excerpta Constantiniana …
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1140
Ἐναύλισμα
abode, quarters
… 1139 and epsilon 1324. Same gloss in some lexica, but
Hesychius
epsilon2698 has a fuller one: newsti\ geno/meno/n ti oi)/khma, "recently built". Instances in Artemidorus, Theophylact Simocatta, and elsewhere.
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ε
1525
Ἐξαληλιμμένος
[having been] smeared-over
… given here (of the "unplastered" city wall at Plataiai). cf.
Hesychius
epsilon3535.
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1946
Ἐπάλξεις
battlements
… to this point the entry = Lexica Segueriana 226.9; cf.
Hesychius
epsilon4144 (and Etymologicum Magnum 353.20). [2] Greek Anthology 5.294.3 (Agathias Scholasticus). Here the word occurs in the nominative singular. Other quotations from this …
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1991
Ἔπαυλις
encampment
[1] At this point Adler cites
Hesychius
(presumably epsilon4260) and a scholium to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.800. Both use a word similar to oi)ki/a ('dwelling') to gloss the headword (or a related word), but …
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1993
Ἔπαυλις
encampment
… or similar glosses for this noun can be found in
Hesychius
epsilon4260, Lexica Segueriana 226.27, Etymologicum Magnum 353.57, and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.800. See also epsilon 1991. [2] Polybios fr. 145 …
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2236
Ἐπιβλήτης
bar
… outside lexicography) and the gloss make a bad fit here.
Hesychius
epsilon4643 glosses e)piblh/ths as doko/s, moxlo/s "beam, bar," implying that it is a synonym of the preceding entry e)piblh/s (epsilon 2235). The Suda …
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2575
Ἐπισκήνιον
episkenion, episcenium
… sigma 569 (Vitruvius) or 'something brought on the the skene'
(Hesychius
s.v.). But it might be an adjective, meaning stage-y; LSJ s.v. notes an instance of this in Porphyry.
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2629
Ἐπίστιον
ship-shed, ship-slip
… see next note -- and there is something similar in
Hesychius
(epsilon5253). [2] An abridgment of Herodotus 5.72.1, where however epistia has nothing to with the present headword; cf. epsilon 2630.
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3149
Ἐσκήνησαν
they tented
… Lexicon epsilon2000, and is similar to entries for e)skh/nwsen in
Hesychius
epsilon6232, Lexica Segueriana 237.10 and (according to Adler) the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (2183). This conjunction between entries in various lexica, as well as …
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3215
Ἑστιᾶν
to feast
… of Codex Laurentianus 59.16; cf. also Anecdota Graeca (Bekker) 141.25.
Hesychius
defines a number of different forms and derivatives of the verb with similar glosses: epsilon6391, epsilon6394, epsilon6396, epsilon6399, epsilon6400. [2] From the scholia …
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3441
Εὐερκεῖ
well-fenced
[1] cf.
Hesychius
s.v. eu)erke/s. Here dative singular, evidently extracted from the quotation given. [2] Greek Anthology 7.193.3 (Simias), recounting the capture and confinement of a pet locust (or a grasshopper) expected to sing; …
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3640
Εὐπάρυφα
finely-bordered
… beta 30. [1] = Synagoge epsilon973; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2281; cf.
Hesychius
epsilon7060, epsilon7061, epsilon7062, Photius epsilon2282, and scholia on Lucian (155.3 and 275.7 Rabe). The headword is perhaps quoted from the Septuagint (Ezekiel 23.12); …
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3702
Εὐρυόδεια
with wide roads
Similarly already in
Hesychius
(epsilon7145), and cf. also a scholion on Homer, Iliad 16.635, where the feminine headword -- a single-word adjective in the Greek -- occurs in the genitive (web address 1). The …
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3718
Εὐρύβατος
Eurybatos, Eurybatus
cf. Pausanias the Atticist epsilon83; Lexica Segueriana 257.13;
Hesychius
epsilon7129; Harpokration s.v. *eu)ru/baton. "Eurybatos" was a popular by-word for "scoundrel" since at least the time of Demosthenes (On the Crown 18.24: web address 1) …
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3792
Εὐφήμει
speak well
cf. epsilon 3793. [1] = Synagoge epsilon1008; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2360;
Hesychius
epsilon7269. Headword and glosses are present imperative active (the headword apparently quoted from Plato: cf. n. 3 below). These glosses reflect the literal …
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