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- γ226Γηγενεῖςearth-born (ones)… "did you learn these clever things by going to the earth-born ones?" Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "by an earth-born gust", meaning one great enough that it makes earthquakes; for [it was] an …
- γ230Γῇ θάλατταν συναναμίγνυσινthey mix up the sea with the earthThe proverb [is used] in reference to those who are excessively angered.
- κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earthA white clay/earth.
- μ12Μὰ γῆν μὰ παγίδας μὰ νεφέλας μὰ δίκτυαby earth (and) by snares (and) by clouds (and) by netsThus they used to swear by random things, [for example] by springs, by rivers. Aristophanes in Birds [sc. illustrates this].
- χ617Χυτρεοῦνearthenware… cooking-pot. Aristophanes [writes]: "o unhappy me, for taking you -- earthenware -- to be a god".
- κ1744ΚλειγένηςKleigenes, Cligenes… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." "Ash-mixing" [is] ash mixed with soda. "Kimolian" [is a kind of] white earth. So he is saying that [Kleigenes] is most rascally [skilled] …
- κ2640Κυκησιτέφρουof ash-mixing… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." ["Ash-mixing" means] that which mixes the ash, combining it with soda. And "Kimolian" [refers to] a white earth. [Aristophanes] is saying that [Kleigenes] …
- κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… from the [verb] kai/nw ["I slay"), [meaning] I cut; cut-up earth. It is also written as konipoda, namely a narrow sandal, so narrow that the foot was covered with dust.
- ε1643Ἐξεράσατε τοὺς λίθουςdisgorge the stones… expression is made from the [word] e)/ra, which is the earth.
- κ1377Κεραυνόςthunderbolt[A thunderbolt is] "a violent kindling falling upon the earth with great force, from clouds being rubbed together or broken... But others [say that it is] a gathering of fiery air moving violently downwards." …
- ε2966Ἔρημοςdesert… of its inhabitants; [the term comes] from the [noun] e)/ra ["earth"] Also [sc. attested is] e(rhmono/mois ["[in] desert-pasturing [ones]"], the wild animals that range over the desert.
- α2234Ἀνεκάςupwards… Crates in Heroes [writes]: "[bring up] your neck from the earth, looking up at them."
- κ2360Κρεάγραmeat-hook"Why on earth would we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- ε1800Ἐξόνbeing allowed, being possible"Why on earth do we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- ε2103Ἐπεφόρησενpiled on… and having covered all of the surface she piled on earth, hiding what had been made."
- α2757Ἀντῳδήantode, response… I fall down voiceless and tongueless and lie on the earth, having renounced my zealous mimicry".
- β399Βοσκήσομενwe will feed… such an unveiled pollution he shows thus, which neither the earth nor the sacred rain nor the light will welcome."
- χ236Χειμὼν ὀρνιθίαςbird storm, bird tempest, fowl wind[Meaning] one that scatters birds upon the earth because of the cold blast; that is, an extremely forceful one, in which even birds perish. It is also called a bird wind. Or [it is …
- δ287Δεῦροhither… I myself, by Apollo, will send them down below the earth."
- ει337Εἰ τὸ μέσον κτήσαιο Κορίνθου καὶ Σικυῶνοςif you were to acquire the middle ground between Corinth and Sikyon… even the city is founded between the sky and the earth; Cloudcuckooland, that is.
- κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady… vine here hinges upon the fact that phlo/s means both "earth, mud" and "wine dregs, lees". [2] For the otherwise unattested e)/mpelos read e)/mphlos ("muddy").
- ε2731Ἐπιτρῖψαιto crush, to wear out… church is carried away by the rivers as the eroded earth.
- λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than Lynkeus… true, that that man could easily see even below the earth".
- γ236Γῆ κληρουχικήallotted land, cleruchic land… phrase translated here "by lot" can equally mean "in a plot"; the kleros is both process and outcome.
- κ1127Καττύεταιis stitched together… In Aristophanes it is used in a metaphor for a plot being put together. See also kappa 1128, and cf. kappa 1129.
- ε320Ἐθείρειtends… drying of a recently soaked a)lwh/ -- here probably "cultivated plot", less likely "threshing-floor" -- by a north wind, whereat "he who e)qei/rh| it" rejoices). The verb has no agreed etymology, but the context …
- ε2201Ἐπῇρενexcited, incited, stirred up, urged on… tyrant Phalaris is told by Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4. The plot failed, but Phalaris displayed clemency by allowing the lovers to live in exile. Phalaris ruled Akragas c.570-554 BCE. See alpha 1812, alpha 2634, …
- α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [are] a city's ruin… of Aeschylus, Dictyulci or Net-Draggers, apparently had much the same plot.) "Squeezers" or "drainers" are explained by Photius (Lexicon alpha1233) and Eustathius on the Iliad, p. 838.54, as men who inflict outrages on the …
- δ1492Δράκαυλοςdrakaulos; living with a snake… Pandrosus. For speculation on the role of Phineus in the plot of the play see the Loeb edition of the fragments (ed. H. Lloyd-Jones, 1996, pp.308-09). Some have suggested that it was a satyr-play.
- η303Ἡμερινῶν σιτίωνdaily foodstuffsMeaning of the [food of] mortal and earthly [beings].