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α2751Ἀντλίαbilge, bilge-water… ship]. "So I will seize and take away the bilge[-water] itself". From a metaphor of ships. For antlia is also said to be the efflux of a ship. And the Pisidian [writes]: "from those …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… cabbage is the only thing a vine will not wrap itself around. Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3074Ἐρώτησις ἔνδοξοςprobable question… white or black, and what good thing is choiceworthy in itself, and who is [the person] seated. And there is another kind of question [which is] about substance; for instance, when [we are investigating …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει222Εἰσαγγελίαimpeachment, eisangelia… loses his citizen rights. However, Isaeus [in] On the estate itself named the same procedure "impeachment" and "public prosecution". "This affair [is] plainly in accordance with the decree of Kannonos: I must fuck you …Matched in translationhighmedium
β229Βεκεσέληνεbekeselene… moon. So bekese/lhne [is] like prose/lhne. But also bekese/lhne by itself is derived from a story like this. When Psammetikhos became king of the Egyptians, he wanted to know which of all men were …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ563Διαθήκηcovenant, testament, will… the Psalms PG 23.1233 comes close. For the "core" covenant itself see Genesis 17 LXX; cf. Exodus 2.24, and later allusions in e.g. Acts of the Apostles 3.25. [2] Aristophanes, Birds 439, and scholion. …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ396ΚαρκίνοςCarcinus, Karkinos… being short. Because a part of something small is small itself or even less than small. And “inventers of artifices” from a part; because Xenocles, the son of Carcinus, is supposed to have introduced …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ8Λάβραξbass… byword/proverb, applying to gluttons, see Apostolius 10.38; and for Miletus itself cf. mu 1060. [1] Etymologically 'grabby', thus greedy, a sense present in a couple of the associated terms, lambda 7 and lambda 9. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4544Αὐχμεῖς αἰσχρῶςyou are shamefully dirty… transmitted as the particle me/n, and omitted from the quotation itself.) [4] Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere. [5] Again this must be a quotation.Matched in noteshighmedium
ν179Νενημένηνheaped-up… -- in Photius (nu118 Theodoridis) and other lexica. The headword itself is accusative feminine singular of this perfect middle/passive participle and therefore extracted from somewhere other than the quotation given, which has genitive plural. …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… Catascepenus) -- unless those authors took it from the Suda itself. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (At iota 436, a similar allegation is made about Julian of Halicarnassus.)Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1071Μίλτοςmiltos, ruddle, red ochre, red earth, red lead… Used as such (amongst other things) but in fact, in itself, a naturally-occurring iron oxide deposit. In classical Greece, associated particularly with the island of Keos. [2] Homer, Iliad 2.637; Odyssey 9.125. [3] Greek …Matched in noteshighmedium
ν28Ναξιουργὴς κάνθαροςNaxian-made kantharos… a term for all or part of the Great Harbour itself (see Robert Garland, The Piraeus (1987) 9). For the Aphrodision, a shrine, see Garland 150; for the stoas, Garland 152-3.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3006Ἐρριπτασμένονtossed about, prostrated again and again… in one of its rarer meanings, for the gaming board itself (LSJ [II 3], citing Hermippus fr. 27 Kock [and K.-A.]).Matched in noteshighmedium
α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… uses the phrase to\ a)rgu/rion to\ a)/busson in that line itself. [6] Psalm 103:6 LXX. See again under pi 1083. [7] Psalm 41:8 LXX. [8] Referring to the continuation of Psalm 41:8 LXX, "all …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-branded… See also Hesychius kappa3561. [1] In fact (as the headword itself induicates) koppa rather than kappa; see n. 4 below. [2] cf. sigma 85. San (ϻ) was a distinct letter, used instead of sigma …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2706ΚυνήειοςKyneeios, Cyneius, Kynneios, Cynneius… kappa1210 Theodoridis, though with some significant differences. For the headword itself, the mss of Photius have some variety of *Kunei=os, omitting the odd uncontracted cluster of vowels present in the Suda's *kunnh/eios. Theodoridis, however, …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… adjective for the adverb ("on account of incessant sitting at…"), itself governing e)pi\ + the article and infinitive. [6] Here a new sentence in our text begins "In which" (e)n w|(=), presumably from the …Matched in noteshighmedium