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1664
Δυσξύμβολα
(things) hard to deal with
… word in this form prior to the Suda are in
Pollux
5.150 and Artemidorus 4.56 (although LSJ reports a variant reading for this word, duscu/mblhta). In all the attestations of the word, the only …
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296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
… is the import of this entry; it also occurs at
Pollux,
Onomasticon 4.65. The two sources attribute the origin of the Chian musical style to the musician Democritus of Chios (RE 5.140, a contemporary …
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1532
Ἀμβολὰς γῆ
thrown-up earth, raised earth
… the quotation given. [1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.12 (web address 1).
Pollux
7.100 registers this phrase in Xenophon. [2] delta 22; and see also under iota 577 and omicroniota 66.
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2080
Ἀνάστασις
destruction
… see alpha 2079. [1] So too in Photius; and cf.
Pollux
3.91. [2] As de Boor pointed out, the source appears, rather, to be Appian (Punica 106). For Polybius (36.16) see mu 245, and …
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4309
Ἀταλάντη
Atalante, Atalanta
… kappa 1035). See also under mu 393. [1] Castor and
Pollux.
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222
Αἴνικος
Eunikos, Eunicus
… both here and in ps.-Zonaras, but it should be Eunikos
(Pollux
10.100; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel), who mentions the play mentioned here -- see further, next note). See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V pp. …
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161
Βασιλίνδα
king of the castle
This headword (cf. e.g.
Pollux
9.110) appears by mistake at beta 160, q.v. See rather kappa 2777 (end), where it is used of the game played by the young Cyrus -- later to be …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… a bad omen rested with the presiding magistrate(s). According to
Pollux
8.24 the e)chghtai\ were appointed to the interpretation of signs and used to give instruction about the will of gods. [9] The information …
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1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… Peace 295 derive the word from a(/las tri/bein "grind salt".
Pollux
1.245 mentions the a)letri/banos among implements used by peasants. For 'pestle' doi/duc see Peace 288, 295; a scholion ascribes to Crates of Mallos …
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1592
Δυσανασχέτως
with displeasure
… used in the second century CE by philologists (Diodorus Dyscolus,
Pollux)
and in scholia to various authors. [1] An approximation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 7.15.11 (through Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti 226.17-18), on the Avar khan's …
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1710
Δυσφημία
ill-omened words, words of ill omen
[1] Mentioned by
Pollux
in a list of negative nouns; same gloss in ps.-Zonaras. For the opposite, see epsilon 3795. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
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2768
Ἐπιχειλές
rim-full
… glossed accordingly (cf. already Hesychius epsilon5426, glossing to\ e)llipe/s, and
Pollux
5.133) -- must be quoted from somewhere else. An extant possibility is Synesius, Dion 14.
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2902
Ἐργαστῆρας
workmen
… an earlier instance in Xenophon (Oeconomicus 5.15), noted by both
Pollux
and Stobaeus. [2] Aelian fr. 262 Domingo-Forasté (264 Hercher). Adler agrees with Bernhardy in suspecting the reading ei)s au)to/n.
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3640
Εὐπάρυφα
finely-bordered
… the headword certainly might refer, but not exclusively (more ambiguously
Pollux
7.46.3). Unless Herodian (1.16.3) and Irenaios (1.7.2) are being pleonastic, the sense of the headword can be separate from purple-ness. See also alpha …
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113
Ἰδιοξενία
private friendship
… must be Pericles (pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181): see
Pollux
3.59 and, imprimis, Thucydides 2.13.1.
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