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Ἁ πίτυς
the pine-tree
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in some of the manuscripts. [1]
Theocritus
(see next note) wrote in a Doric dialect: the feminine nominative singular of the definite article was a(, which the Suda glosses with …
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536
Ἁδύ
sweet
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.1 (quoted also at alpha 3220, tau 511, psi 98), with scholion; neuter singular.
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Βράβηλα
sloes
… Magnum 211.4. [1] Damascus-plums, a.k.a. damsons; see further below. [2]
Theocritus,
Idylls 7.146. [3] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.49D-50B (2.33 Kaibel) -- citing the grammarian and commentator Seleucus Homericus of Alexandria (sigma 200), fr.42 FHG (but …
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874
Ἑλίχρυσος
gold-twist, helichrysum
… from the similarity of use and from passages such as
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.30 where the two plants are mentioned together. Hollis (185) suggests on the basis of the
Theocritus
passage that the headword can …
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245
Ἄγκεσι
[in] forests
… not demonstrably so; there are other extant possibilities in e.g.
Theocritus
and Oppian. [1] For this glossing cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.321, where a)/gke' occurs. [2] Greek Anthology 6.186.4 (Diocles), dedications to …
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Ἅλοιτο
might spring
… quotation given. but see next note. (Other possibilities in Xenophon,
Theocritus,
etc.) [1] A version (again at sigma 569) of Greek Anthology 7.36.1-2 which has the headword a(/loito rather than a)/roito. On this epigram, …
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49
Αἴγιλλος
aigillos, aegillus, haver-grass
… The word (spelled with single or double lambda) occurs in
Theocritus,
Babrius, etc.
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1490
Δράγματα
handfuls of uncut corn, trusses
… given, though there are numerous alternatives (in e.g. Homer, Callimachus,
Theocritus
and the Septuagint). Same headword but different glossing in Hesychius, Photius, and elsewhere. In any event the noun, from the same root as …
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