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- β193Βαυκαλᾶνto sing a lullabySame entry in ps.-Zonaras; Hesychius and Photius have this definition plus "to lull to sleep", katakoimi/zein; the latter is also in Moeris. Not much attested outside lexicography; LSJ s.v. has some instances, and registers …
- α1079ἌλαστεinconsolableSame entry in ps.-Zonaras. [1] The headword (vocative case) occurs in Homer, Iliad 22.261, and the gloss is the one from the scholia thereto. [2] Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but Adler cites …
- ε660Ἐκ τιτυννῶνfrom babies, from totsThe noun in the headword phrase is the Doric tunno/s (for mikro/s: cf. tau 1171), here textually corrupt; see LSJ s.v. (In ps.-Zonaras it is even worse: titumnw=n.) The (original) phrase e)k tunnw=n must …
- ε3314ἘτιθηνήσατοsuckledSame entry in ps.-Zonaras; comparable one, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2232); and see also Hesychius epsilon6611, where this same headword has the more generalized gloss e)/qreyen. The headword is aorist indicative …
- δ540Διαδικασάμενοςhaving disputedSame entry in ps.-Zonaras and the Lexicon Vindobonense. The headword -- aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of diadika/zw -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given. See also delta 541 for the specific …
- ε790ἝλενοςHelenos, Helenus(Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.) From ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.72.16-18; again at chi 258. Earlier ps.-Nonnus had attributed the discovery of augury or divination per se to 'Phrygians' (omicroniota 163), so it is a pleasing …
- ε2027Ἐπεγχανώνmaking faces atThe headword (quoted from somewhere unidentifiable) is the aorist active participle of e)pegxa/skw, masculine nominative singular. (The quotation which follows presents the aorist active infinitive.) See related verbs at epsilon 172, epsilon 2670. This …
- ε2853Ἐπράξατοexacted [for him/her/itself][1] The headword is third person singular, aorist indicative middle, of pra/ssw/pra/ttw. It might be extracted from the second quotation given below, though other lexica have just this headword and gloss (for the glossing …
- ε328Ἔθοςcustom, habituationSimilarly in ps.-Zonaras. [1] cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric 1368b7-9, distinguishing particular from common (or general) law -- the former being the written law according to which a city is ruled, the latter the unwritten law …
- δ181Δεκατεύεινto pay a tithe[1] Despite this initial gloss (similarly in ps.-Zonaras), the verb dekateu/ein, as the entry goes on to show, properly means to impose a tithe (on someone else). See also delta 182 (and delta 186). …
- μ474ΜελεδωνόςcaretakerThe headword is the nominative singular form of the noun. Of the three quotations that follow only the last presents the word in this form; in the other two cases the word appears in …
- β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… entrance to Philip and his wife. Others favoring Decius are Zonaras (3.132) and George the Monk (Chronicon 110.552). Cedrenus wavers between Philip (1.451) and Numerianus (1.464). The likeliest explanation is that Babylas died in …