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- ε248Ἕδοςhedos… Lexicon. The headword is perhaps extracted from Plato, Symposium 178B (itself quoting Hesiod, Theogony 117), though Timaeus' coverage is wider than his title suggests and there are many other possibilities. See also epsilon 222, …
- α613Ἀείδελονdark, obscure, invisible[1] Similarly in other lexica. This primary headword itself is masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the poetic adjective a)ei/delos. It has perhaps been extracted from somewhere in this form; alternatively it …
- κ2123Κόρυκοςsack… mu 405; here a garbled e(lw/n?), and in the headword itself the first vowel has shifted from omega to omicron.
- β153ΒασίλειοςBasileios, royal… change of subject the entry now draws on Harpokration s.v. (itself generated by ancient comment on Demosthenes 25.23). [3] In the Agora at Athens. [4] See epsilon 804. [5] Named after one of the …
- ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… epsilon 3796 as a proper name). The present entry concerns itself with the specialized religious connotation of "good speech" to mean "ritual silence"; cf. epsilon 3792. [1] Apparently a fragment of Iambic poetry. Ascribed …
- μ1071Μίλτοςmiltos, ruddle, red ochre, red earth, red lead… Used as such (amongst other things) but in fact, in itself, a naturally-occurring iron oxide deposit. In classical Greece, associated particularly with the island of Keos. [2] Homer, Iliad 2.637; Odyssey 9.125. [3] Greek …
- ε928Ἐμασχαλίσθηwas armpitted… to the treatment of Agamemnon's corpse by Klytaimestra); the note itself does not appear in the surviving scholia to either passage, though it could well once have stood in the Choephoroi scholia (which in …
- δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… in this instance, Harpok. has no entry for the deme itself; see rather epsilon 1179). For the present entry cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. and the Aristophanic scholia cited in the notes below. On …
- ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… change). Now matter is, by definition, something passive which by itself is not said as something determined (Metaphysics 1042a27-28 (web address 3)), something that, "without being a 'this' in actuality is a 'this' in …
- μ1065ΜίλιονMilion, milestone… in gilded wood, which held the Tyche of the city, itself also gilded, in its right hand. He mandated that on the day when the anniversary of the city's founding was celebrated in the …
- ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… to my knowledge, been adequately recognized. The chorus has transformed itself into a Bacchic chorus of Maenads. They lift their legs in their dancing or running step (web address 7, web address 8), and …