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412
Καρπαία
karpaia, crop-dance
… down his arms and starts to sow and plough with
oxen,
often turning round as if afraid, and a raider appears; when the first man sees him he snatches up his arms, goes to …
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470
Βούτομον
sedge, butomus
… Butomus umbellatus, the sharp-edged leaves of which can indeed "cut
oxen"
(the literal meaning of boutomos) on the mouth or tongue.
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1374
Κερασβόλα
horn-struck, hard-shelled
… than horn; its horn has struck the horn of the
ox,
what time the ploughman's hand is scattering the grain over his land." [2] Odd accusative for "sowing and the plough" (presumably meaning "during …
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305
Ἀγοράσω
I will go to market
… M. Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy
(Oxford
1969) 121-136.
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708
Ἀθάρα
gruel, porridge
… [2] The issue is a matter of accent: paroxytone, not
oxytone
[3] So too in Photius and other lexica, quoting Crates fr.9 Kock (11 K.-A.).
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3069
Ἄπεστιν
is away
… generally on him J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC
(Oxford
1971) 404. [3] The Thirty Tyrants were Athenian oligarchs granted power by Lysander (cf. lambda 852) after Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War …
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4298
Ἀσφόδελος
asphodel
… the noun (as the headword) is proparoxytone, but this adjective
oxytone.
The "asphodel meadow" was supposedly haunted by the shades of dead heroes; cf. Homer Odyssey 11.539 and 24.13 (web address 1 and web …
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4713
Ἀχράς
achras, wild pear
… advocated. See on this Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, edited by R.G. Ussher
(Oxford
1973, reprinted Bristol 1986) 126, following van Leeuwen.
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278
Αἶρα
darnel; sphere; Airai (?)
… T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis
(Oxford
2004) 1063 no.837.
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472
Γύγης
Gyges
… classification(s) of auloi see generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music
(Oxford
1992) 89-94.
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49
Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦς
even Mandron got a fig-wood ship
… Russell Meiggs, Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(Oxford
1982) 118-120.
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859
Ἔλινος
vine
… the Periegete 1153.11, 43, and with a smooth breathing and
oxytone
accent in Etymologicum Magnum 330.40. [1] In fact Adler's punctuation suggests that she took this entry not as headword plus gloss but as …
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