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- κ379Κάρηναheads… well-attested with this meaning in Homer (e.g. Iliad 2.117, the scholia to which provide the present gloss).
- δ328Δείμωμενlet us build… 323. Similar entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 7.337, where the headword occurs -- but NB: it should be spelled dei/momen (a short-vowel aorist subjunctive). Additionally, the Suda …
- κ343Κάπνηchimney… Wasps 143 (web address 1), with the gloss of the scholia there. For the glossing term cf. under iota 550.
- ε3215Ἑστιᾶνto feast… similar glosses: epsilon6391, epsilon6394, epsilon6396, epsilon6399, epsilon6400. [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 1354, where ei(stiw/meq' occurs. [3] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 942 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia. The form of the …
- κ2473Κρόσσαςsteps… Aristonicus -- on Homer, Iliad 12.258 (web address 1); cf. scholia ad loc., and cf. scholia to Homer, Iliad 14.35. Compare also Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (104.14); Hesychius kappa4199; Etymologicum Magnum 540.40.
- κ1582Κιγκλίδαςlatticed gates… entire definition is taken, with slight wording changes, from the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 641, glossing kigkli/da in the accusative singular. [1] Apart from the scholia to Aristophanes (see above), the etymology is also …
- λ519Λιθολόγοιmasons… appears in the dative plural (web address 1); cf. the scholia there; also Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and other lexica (see the references at Photius lambda304 Theodoridis).
- δ1554Δρύφακτοιrailings[1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 386: an anapaestic trimeter where Philocleon is giving instruction in a solemn form to be buried under the dru/faktoi, that is the wooden railings used in a …
- β492Βωμόςaltar; podium… for the wording of the present passage cf. rather [Nonnus], Scholia mythologica 4.28 (PG 36, 1001b). [3] Aristophanes, Peace 942 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the scholia there. Again at theta …
- β256Βηλόςthreshold… other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.591, where the headword occurs. [2] Likewise in other lexica. An example of this sense occurs in the late epic …
- ε3714Εὐρυάγυιαwith wide avenues… Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. the scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.12 (where the headword occurs in the accusative: see web address 1). The same gloss has already appeared at epsilon …
- χ49Χαλκοβατέςbronze-floored… see esp. Homer, Iliad 1.426 (web address 2, with the scholia there) and 14.173 (web address 3), Odyssey 8.321 (web address 4); alternatively, with that of King Alcinous (e.g. Odyssey 13.4: web address 5).
- κ2740Κυπτάζεινto lurk… emended out of existence by modern editors; cf. sigma 1159; scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 509 (see n.3), which seems to be the source for most of the information in this entry, apart from the …
- ι275Ἰκρίαbenches, planks… Theodoridis. For the nautical part of this gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 5.163, where the headword (neuter plural) occurs (web address 1). [2] For theatrical i)kri/a cf. alphaiota 35 and 357, pi …
- αι139Αἴθουσαcorridor, loggia, portico, verandah… catch the sun and so be illuminated. Adler cites the scholia to Homer, 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.
- δ1101Δικλίςdouble-folding… other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 12.455, where dikli/das occurs (web address 1). [2] Greek Anthology 5.256.1 (Paul the Silentiary), on the poet's troubled love life.
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machinecf. Diogenianus 2.84 and other paroemiographers; also the scholia to Plato, Clitophon 470A (and other scholia). For the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, …
- β257Βῆμαplatform, podium, rostrum… 3.207. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 677-8, preceded by comment from the scholia there.
- δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open… the vagina as secondary meaning. Besides the hint in the scholia ad loc. (kakemfa/tws, "used in a vulgar way") see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 141 #155, and 168-9 #295 on …
- δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… present entry cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. and the Aristophanic scholia cited in the notes below. On Diomeia see generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (1975) 39; D. Whitehead, The Demes of …
- ε77Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοιstones were laid in[1] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.93.2, where the phrase li/qoi ei)rgasme/noi e)gkatele/ghsan ("prepared stones were laid in") occurs in the description of the Themistoclean rebuilding of the walls of Athens in 479 BCE; …
- ε3149Ἐσκήνησανthey tented… in tents: Anabasis 4.2.22 (web address 1)). [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 69 (web address 2), where the e- or a-contract form e)skhnhme/noi appears. The scholiast goes on to deny explicitly that …
- χ275ΧηλαίbreakwatersThe gloss is taken from the scholia to Thucydides 1.63.1 (where a form of the headword appears: web address 1 below). For the zoological sense of the headword see chi 276.
- α4225Ἄστεαtowns[1] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.3, where the headword (neuter plural) occurs. [2] Attested only here and, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; grammatically obscure. [3] The phrase is otherwise unattested …
- χ410Χορόςchorus, orchestra… Homer, Iliad 18.590 (Hephaestus decorates a shield for Achilles), and scholia on this verse. [2] Scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 589. (Not proverbial, despite this billing.)
- β534Βρέταςlikeness… not poi, is the preferred reading), with comment from the scholia there.
- μ649Μεσαίτατοςmiddlemost… web address 2). Both words are also used in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.426, to gloss periske/ptw| "conspicuous".
- α4352Ἀτημελίαneglect… probably (despite the masculine glossing) Aeschylus, Agamemnon 891; see the scholia there (with h)melhme/nas).
- κ1058Κατηρεφέαvaulted[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica and various scholia (inc. on Homer, Iliad 18.589: web address 1); see the references at Photius kappa471 Theodoridis. The headword is neuter nominative/accusative plural of the adjective …
- κ211Καλιάhut; grotto[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and scholia), and cf. kappa 186, kappa 195, kappa 201, kappa 247, nu 206. [2] Greek Anthology 6.253.3 (Crinagoras); cf. pi 1671. On this epigram, a hunter's …