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λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… 12.67. Whether his father was Hippodamos of Miletos, the well-known town planner, is open to question, though this is commonly assumed -- see e.g. LGPN ii s.v. Archeptolemos(3) -- since Hippodamos of Miletos did …Matched in noteshighshort
α4511Αὐτὸν κέκρουκας τὸν βατῆρα τῆς θύραςyou have hit the very threshold of the doorRoughly equivalent to "You have hit the nail on the head". Again at beta 181. Taken to be, in origin, from comedy (Comica adespota fr. 570c Kock, but now Amipsias fr. 25 Kassel-Austin), and …Matched in noteshighshort
α1143Ἀλλ' ἔσθι' ἐλθὼν τοὺς Μεγακλέους κίονας

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Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοις

is soaked with tears

[Meaning] becomes wet through. Aristophanes [writes]: "the son of Hippodamos is soaked when he sees [it]". This Hippodamos was settled in Piraeus and presented his house to the people. [Aristophanes] is saying [this]…

Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοις· διάβροχος γίνεται. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὁ δ' Ἱπποδάμου λείβεται θεώμενος. οὗτος ὁ Ἱππόδαμος ἐν Πειραιεῖ κατῴκει καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν δημοσίαν ἀνῆκε. πικρῶς οὖν λέγει…

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but go and eat the pillars of Megacles

… as a pun on "pillars of Heracles" see the note to mu 354.

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α783ἈκάκιοςAkakios, Acacius… 2.19. [3] Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this entry to Malchus (on Theodore the Reader 167); now accepted as Malchus fr.2b Cresci. [4] beta 164.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3215Ἑστιᾶνto feast… in the entry is its present middle/passive infinitive. [1] From "to feed..." up to this point the entry = Synagoge epsilon869; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2024. The initial syntactical information is added from a syntactical lexicon, …Matched in noteshighshort

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 …Matched in noteshighshort

α3265Ἀπογειῶσαιto reduce to dirtLikewise in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword, an aorist active infinitive, must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested. (LSJ gives the verb as a)pogaio/w rather than …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… usual, tribe allocations of these demes in the lexica refer to the original (508/7), Kleisthenic one. (Between 307/6 and 201/0 it belonged to Demetrias.) For the Aegeid tribe see generally alphaiota 32, alphaiota 36; …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2740Κυπτάζεινto lurk… 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 first …Matched in noteshighshort

δ174Δεκάζεσθαιto be bribed in tens… Isocrates 8.50 (web address 1). [4] Harpokration ascribes this explanation to the learned hellenistic scholar Eratosthenes. (Harvey [76-118 at 88-89] briefly discusses it.) See also eta 271, lambda 820.Matched in noteshighmedium

β115Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναιivory bastions, ivory towers… Baris, adding that the word was also used by Posidippus to mean an oikia and by Ephorus to mean a synoikia; and cf. pi 3201. Cities called Baris are in fact attested in Italy, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3718ΕὐρύβατοςEurybatos, Eurybatus… Gregory of Corinth (Walz Rhetorici Graeci 7.1277) ascribe this anecdote to Aristotle (see note 4). For an alternative version, in which Eurybatos shows his guards how to dig through a wall with his bronze …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2776ΚῦροςKuros, Kyros, Cyrus… 2287) under Theodosius II (theta 145). Noted for his improvements to Constantinople’s illumination and fortifications (Chron. Pasch. s.a. 439; John Lyd. infra), he also promoted the Hellenization of the eastern Empire by issuing praetorian …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ12ΓάϊοςGaius… Monk (Georgius Monachus), Chronicon 1.323.7-324.8. (This passage is also referred to at delta 1418.) Its assertion, in passing, that Tiberius (tau 551, tau 552) deified himself is untrue. [2] = (with minor variations) John …Matched in noteshighlong

ε1535Ἔξαμμον μιλίουexammon of the Milion… the exact meaning of “exammon” is unclear, it probably refers to a symbol or implement of measurement, such as a balance or container. Emperors often erected commemorative monuments in the vicinity of the Milion …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1355ΚεραμεικόςKerameikos, CeramicusFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 131 (Heracles speaking to Dionysus, web address 1); see also epsiloniota 157. The event in question was part of the Panathenaea festival: see Dover ad loc., and H.W. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out… e)klofi/zw. [1] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable. (Adler assigns it to the corpus of quotations derived from missing parts of the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.) The "earth" in question is presumably pozzolana, a precursor …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2309Ἐπίδρομονable to be overrun… Homer, Iliad 6.434, where the neuter singular headword is applied to a wall which can be scaled (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α4413ΑὔγουστοςAugustus… points out that the Suda's a)oido\n "bard" does not seem to make sense. According to Adler, the 1549 Basel edition printed a)i/dhn ("Hades"); Malalas has a)/i+dos ("[house] of Hades") and Cedrenus o(do/n "road." The …Matched in noteshighmedium

β534Βρέταςlikeness… the word for 'mortal', broto/s. [3] Aristophanes, Knights 31 (where tou, not poi, is the preferred reading), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

δ572Διακεκναισμένηworn-away… verb diaknai/w. The glossing is also paralleled in the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 120, where the corresponding masculine participle occurs (see below); this feminine one, nevertheless, must be quoted from somewhere else. [2] An …Matched in noteshighmedium

ι275Ἰκρίαbenches, planks… 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 2230; …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ220Γεῖσοςparapet… variously, in other lexica. The twin primary headwords apply usually to the coping or cornice on a roof or wall that shelters the wall and those under it from rain or falling missiles. The …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1991Ἔπαυλιςencampment… 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 otherwise these …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1116Δικτυωτήlatticed… from di/ktuon 'net'; cf. delta 1115), a form unattested prior to the Suda outside lexicography, although the feminine is found frequently in other cases in reference to a latticed door (with the feminine noun …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1256Ἐνέρσειfastener… On the breach of the Asinaria Gate of Rome by Totila's (cf. tau 879) troops in 546 CE, see Kaldellis (421) and further context at beta 559 and pi 1330.Matched in noteshighshort

α731ἈθήναιοςAthenaios, Athenaeus… (epit.). [3] Two of Athenaeus' examples (3D) have been run together here (and again at alpha 1123): the 'naval victory over the Spartans' refers to Conon's victory at Cnidus (394 BC). [4] cf. alpha …Matched in noteshighmedium

α777Ἀκαθαίρετοςimpregnable, irrefragable… ps.-Zonaras. [1] If this phrase is the quotation is appears to be, it is unidentifiable. (But the glossing word, a)kata/blhtos, is used of towers in a scholion to Euripides, Hecuba 1.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε3640Εὐπάρυφαfinely-bordered… plural; see n. 1 below) means literally "well-woven-alongside" and refers to garments with finer than average borders or fringes, but it quickly comes to be used figuratively to refer to opulent garments in general, …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… scholia there. The passage describes a system for allocating jurors to Athenian courts, operative in the early fourth century (after bribery scandals at the end of the fifth), and later superseded by the even …Matched in noteshighmedium

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