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κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… of Euphrates of Syracuse; his sister's son was the younger Callimachus, who wrote on islands in epic verse. He was so diligent that he wrote poems in every metre, and compiled very many works …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2113ΚόροιβοςKoroibos, Coroebus… proper name. And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves. Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos". Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].Matched in translationhighshort
ι343Ἱμαῖον ᾆσμαwater-drawing song… milling. "And somewhere a certain water-carrying man raised a work-song": Callimachus in Hecale [sc. writes this].Matched in translationhighshort
μ177ΜαραθώνMarathon… place in Athens; [named] from Marathos, a son of Apollo. Callimachus calls this [place] moist, that is, watery. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Marathonian task". Also [sc. attested is] "Marathon-fighters, stout-hearted". Look, concerning …Matched in translationhighshort
μ863Μήnot, that not, lestThe negative [particle]. It occurs in Callimachus instead of ou). "I refused to listen to death calling long ago, not for a long time after." That is, I did not die before this [sc. …Matched in translationhighshort
ι550Ἴπνιαsoot… furnace [furnus]. Or the flammable materials suitable for the stove. Callimachus calls the dung of animals [i)/pnia]: "he/she took away together the rubbish and the ashes from the oven." Or i)pno/s, a cook-shop, or …Matched in translationhighshort
α1146Ἀλετρίβανοςpestle… double-headed salt-grinder". Also [sc. attested is] a)letri/s, the miller-woman in Callimachus.Matched in translationhighshort
ν98Ναὶ μὰ τόνyes by the ..."Yes by my shriveled hide", that is skin. Callimachus in Hecale [sc. uses this phrase. He goes on]: "yes by this tree, dry though it is." The ancients were not inclined to swear by …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ340Δεινόνterrible… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And Callimachus [writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… "all the weavers' things were a spider's web in weight". Callimachus [writes]: "a spider's-web work". Cratinus in Pytinê [writes]: "you are holding your stomach in the middle of spiders' webs." Pherecrates in Tyranny [writes]: …Matched in translationhighmedium
α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships… others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which Callimachus also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion." Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… he was severely beaten as one obscuring the muses". And Callimachus alludes to them, attacking them in this kind of way: "they introduced bastardly songs". Or he is hinting at the associates of Cinesias …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2240ΚωλιάςKolias, Colias… [sc. to eat it]. Hence the spot was named Kolias. Callimachus in Hecale also mentions [it].Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… is a conversation of the philosopher Socrates with him. And Callimachus mentions him in his Choliambics, that he wrote many things.Matched in translationhighmedium