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δ234Δεξιόςclever… 1909. [9] So the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 541. [10] Thucydides 8.68.4. [11] So the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1111. This is a comment on a line in which "they" are greedy Athenians in …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2171Ἐπηλυγάζονταιthey are being obfuscated… [1] = Hesychius epsilon4553, possibly deriving from the scholia to Thucydides. Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon offers the same glosses in reverse order. This form of the headword does not occur in the received text of …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3124Ἀπείπατοdenied, refused… Quotation unidentifiable (but probably from the C5 BCE; cf. e.g. Thucydides 6.104.2 on Kleandridas). The "first aorist" with stem vowel alpha occurs sometimes (but not in Homer or standard Attic) instead of the usual …

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Δεξιός

clever

The well-educated [man]. Also [sc. attested is the plural] dexioi, the well-educated [men]. Aristophanes [writes]: "turning around always to the more comfortable side is the mark of a clever man, a natural Theramenes."…

Δεξιός· ὁ εὐπαίδευτος. καὶ Δεξιοί, οἱ εὐπαίδευτοι. Ἀριστοφάνης· τὸ δὲ μεταστρέφεσθ' ἀεὶ πρὸς τὸ μαλθακώτερον, δεξιοῦ πρὸς ἀνδρός ἐστι, καὶ φύσει Θηραμένους. οὗτος ὁ Θηραμένης τῶν…

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δ550Διάζωμαloin-cloth… ps.-Zonaras. The headword, a neuter noun, is mentioned in (e.g.) Thucydides 1.6.5 as worn in the early Olympian games: web address 1. cf. generally delta 551.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1257Ἐνέρσει κρώβυλον ἀναδούμενοιtying up their hair in a knot with a fastenerSimilarly in a scholion on Thucydides 1.6.5, where the headword phrase occurs (on early Athenian hairstyles). See also kappa 2488, kappa 2489, kappa 2490. The noun e)/nersis in the dative appears also at epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2532Ἐπιπόνωςlaboriously… from the quotation given, though it is common enough from Thucydides onwards. [1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to either Iamblichus or Aelian; now Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 114 Habrich. (For a broadly similar story see …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3086Ἕρσιςbinding, band… the word is attested only as a variant reading at Thucydides 1.6.3 (web address 1): e)n e(/rsei instead of e)ne/rsei; cf. epsilon 1257.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3748Εὐσταλήςwell-equipped… in Hesychius and other lexica. [2] cf. a scholion on Thucydides 3.22.2, where the plural of the headword occurs. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.156 Zintzen, 69C Athanassiadi. On Marcellinus, cf. …Matched in noteshighshort